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Farley v. State

The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for aggravated stalking, as it showed a pattern of harassing and intimidating behavior directed at the victim.

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A jury found Vinson Lloyd Farley guilty of terroristic act and aggravated stalking.1 Farley appeals from his judgment of conviction and the denial of his motion for new trial, claiming that the trial court erred by i allowing hearsay testimony, ii limiting his cross-examination of a police officer, iii precluding him from recalling three of the state’s witnesses during presentation of the defense’s case-in-chief, and iv not giving the jury an instruction on admissions. Farley also contends that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance, and that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict. The evidence showed that Farley and Regina Gipson Gipson lived together in Gipson’s house. When they had been together about a year, their relationship took a turn for the worse. One evening, Farley threw a camera against the bedroom wall. Gipson asked Farley to move out of the house, but he refused and insisted on 30 days’ notice. Gipson went to the courthouse and “put in an eviction notice.” Farley then announced that he was going to divide their bed so that Gipson could sleep on one side and he could sleep on the other. To mark the proposed division, he took an industrial ladder out of the garage and attempted to place it on the bed. When Gipson got on the bed to stop him, Farley dropped the ladder on her.

On July 10, 2008, Gipson obtained a temporary protective order requiring Farley to leave the house, to stay away from the house, and to refrain from contacting or approaching her. The following day, around 12:27 p.m., a sheriff’s deputy served Farley with the protective order. Farley acknowledged at trial that he had received the order and that he knew it prohibited him from returning to the Gipson’s house.

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