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- Title: Ridling v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Arkansas
- Release Date : January 18, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Appellant Danny J. Ridling was charged under Ark. Code Ann. § 5-14-103(a) (Repl. 1997) with the rape of a girl (Kimberly) who was less than fourteen years old. He was originally charged with carnal abuse, but the State upgraded the offense when the girl informed the prosecutor [ Page 218] that the incidents of sexual intercourse commenced earlier than she had originally revealed. It is undisputed that before Ridling was charged, Kimberly was pregnant and had given birth on March 19, 1997, to a child that Ridling later acknowledged to be his. The child was born approximately nine months after Kimberly's fourteenth birthday. Kimberly stopped seeing Ridling just after her fourteenth birthday. At a jury trial, Ridling was convicted of the rape charge and sentenced to 420 months in prison. Ridling raises three points for reversal, the first of which is his argument that the trial court erred in excluding allegedly false statements, made by Kimberly, under the rape-shield statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 16-42-101 (Repl. 1999). Subsection (b) of 16-42-101 provides in pertinent part as follows:
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