Dennis v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Robert Dennis appeals as a matter of right from a Judgment of the Daviess Cir cuit Court sentencing him to sixty-five years in prison following a jury determination that he had sodomized and sexually abused S.J., his stepdaughter. Dennis, who denied having had any sexual contact with his stepdaughter, claims the trial court erred by excluding evidence that S.J. had on a prior occasion made a false accusation of sexual abuse against other persons. We reject Dennis’s claim on the record as it now stands but agree with him that he was entitled to have the…