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Crews v. State

Consistent details of molestation by the four victims in separate interviews gave police probable cause for a warrant to search the defendant's house.

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A jury found Vernon Crews guilty of four counts of child molestation and one count of aggravated sodomy. Crews appeals, arguing that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress, admitting evidence that improperly impugned his character, and permitting a lay witness to give opinion testimony. For reasons that follow, we affirm. Viewed favorably to the jury’s verdict,1 the evidence shows that Pam Pittman, a Department of Family and Children’s Services’ DFCS employee who specializes in child and adult protective services, interviewed three girls, S.M., J.J., and A.M., and one boy, D.M., regarding various allegations of child molestation against Crews.

The interviews revealed that in November 2001, S.M., J.J., A.M., and D.M., spent the night at Crews’ house. Over the course of the evening, Crews made the children play a card game in which participants remove their clothing. While playing the game, Crews asked the girls to perform oral sex on him, which they refused to do, and he attempted to perform oral sex on them. Crews attempted to have vaginal intercourse with A.M. and S.M. He viewed and touched J.J.’s vagina, and he engaged in oral sex with J.J. He penetrated A.M. and J.J. with a vibrator and attempted to use the vibrator on S.M. He tried to have sex with D.M. and taught D.M. how to “jack off”. He also showed the children “nasty videos” of men and women doing “dirty things.”

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