State v. Reed

DURHAM, Justice:

{1 Gary Owen Reed appeals from a final order denying a motion for a new trial and from convictions of two counts of sodomy on a child, a first degree felony, and one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, also a first degree felony. Reed raises four claims of error: (1) inadequate jury voir dire; (2) prosecutorial misconduct; (8) failure to bifurcate the trial proceedings; and (4) an improper elements instruction to the jury. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

1 2 Beginning in the fall of 1992, Reed, who was in his late twenties, befriended the victim, a ten-year-old child in the fifth…