State v. Staples

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Joseph Staples, appeals from his judgments of conviction, following a jury trial, for two counts of forcible rape and one count of forcible sodomy. He was sentenced, as a prior and persistent offender, to three consecutive twenty-year terms of imprisonment. Defendant also appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion following an evidentia-ry hearing. We affirm.

On November 7,1991, defendant arrived at victim’s house and asked her if she wanted to go with him to look for his nephew, who was victim’s boyfriend. Victim was sixteen years old. Instead of actually searching…