Knight v. State

Defendant King Knight raises one issue in this appeal from his conviction and sentence for sexual battery: the trial court erred by allowing the victim of Knight’s rape and beating to testify that she saw a therapist, and couldn’t go out at night, in the days and weeks after the attack. Knight contends that the probative value of this evidence was substantially outweighed by its unfair prejudice, and therefore was inadmissible under section 90.403 of the Florida Statutes. 1 Because Knight did not object at trial to this part of the victim’s testimony on “prejudice” grounds, 2 the issue was…