State v. Cotton

Gorman, Judge.

Following trial to a jury, defendant-appellant, Ricky Cotton, stands convicted of the rape, gross sexual imposition, and felonious sexual penetration of five adolescent female patients of the Millcreek Psychiatric Center for Children. Raising six assignments of error, Cotton alleges that (1) the trial court erred by admitting evidence of his alleged prior sexual misconduct, in violation of the Evidence Rules and the rape-shield statutes; (2) the trial court improperly limited cross-examination of a key complaining witness; (3) prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair…