Gilliland v. State

ELANA CUNNINGHAM WILLS, Justice.

^Appellant Michael Gilliland was originally charged in July 2008 with two counts of rape and one count of second-degree sexual assault. The affidavit for warrant of arrest indicated that the victim, his fourteen-year-old stepdaughter M.M., reported that he had sexually assaulted her. After Gilliland was charged, the information was later amended to drop one of the rape charges. He was convicted on both remaining charges and sentenced to life on the rape conviction and twenty years’ imprisonment on the sexual assault conviction.

On appeal, Gilliland raises two…