State of Tennessee v. Gary Strange

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Defendant, Gary Strange, was convicted of three counts of rape of a child and one count of incest following a jury trial. The trial court sentenced Defendant to thirty years for each count of rape of a child and eight years for incest. The trial court ordered two of the thirty-year sentences to run consecutively with each other and concurrently to the remaining sentences for an effective sixty-year sentence as a Range II offender. On appeal, Defendant contends that: (1) the trial court erred by admitting the victim's forensic interview (2) the trial court erred by failing to require the State to make an election of offenses (3) the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions (4) there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the evidence and (5) his sentence is excessive. After a thorough review of the briefs and the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.