State of Tennessee v. William \Bill\ Douglas Farr, Sr.

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The Defendant, William \Bill\ Douglas Farr, Sr., was convicted by a Lawrence County Circuit Court jury of rape of a child, a Class A felony, and was sentenced to forty years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant argues that: (1) the State committed prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument by vouching for the credibility of a witness and repeatedly referring to the Defendant as a \monster\ (2) the trial court erred in failing to give specific unanimity and election of offenses jury instructions (3) the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction and (4) the trial court applied the incorrect law in determining his sentence. After review, we affirm the Defendant's conviction but modify his sentence to twenty-five years and remand for entry of an amended judgment.