State v. Newman

Jay Newman, Jr., appeals the judgment and sentence entered against him for five counts of first degree statutory rape. He contends that the trial court erred by allowing the State to orally amend the information to expand the charging periods, by failing to compel the State to elect the acts that formed the basis of each count, and by refusing to allow him to use a taped interview of the victims as evidence. We affirm.

Newman was charged by information with five counts of statutory rape involving his two granddaughters, M (about 5 years old at the time of the alleged abuse) 1 and R (about 3…