SEA v. STATE

No. 2009-KA-01052-SCT.

49 So.3d 614 (2010)

Curtis Lernard SEA v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 9, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of Indigent Appeals by George T. Holmes , Jackson, attorney for appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by Deirdre McCrory , Jackson, attorney for appellee.

Before GRAVES, P.J., DICKINSON and CHANDLER, JJ.


DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. A Yalobusha County jury found Curtis Sea not guilty on three counts of statutory rape and one count of sexual battery, but guilty on five counts of sexual battery. Without filing a pretrial motion or obtaining a ruling on the issue, Sea's counsel introduced evidence of his own client's two prior criminal convictions — both of which had occurred approximately twenty-five years prior to trial. Evidence of a party's...

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