Poole v. State

A jury sitting in the Circuit Court for Worcester County convicted Leroy Poole, appellant, of third and fourth degree sexual offenses, second degree assault, false imprisonment, and sexual solicitation of a minor. The court imposed a sentence totaling twenty years imprisonment: ten years for the third degree sexual offense; ten years for false imprisonment, to be served consecutively; and ten years for the conviction of sexual solicitation of a minor, to be served concurrently.1 It also ordered appellant to register as a sex offender.

Appellant presents four questions for our review, which we…