Opinion ID: 1791789
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: To rebut factual assertions.

Text: The only relevant assertion of fact raised by Appellant with respect to inducing young boys to undress in his presence was his testimony that he did not concoct the story about the overturned boat to lure children to the reservoir (as insinuated by the questions asked of him during his grand jury testimony played for the jury during the Commonwealth's case-in-chief). There was no evidence to rebut Appellant's assertion that the boat overturned and sank in 1990. The Commonwealth's rebuttal evidence about events occurring at Fleming Creek, at a lake near Flemingsburg, at another unnamed lake, and while fish gigging on a creek near Sherburne approximately twenty years before did not rebut evidence about the sunken boat in the reservoir or its spilled fishing gear. Nor did any of the rebuttal testimony relate to incidents involving photographing a nude child under a ruse that an adult woman wanted to have sexual intercourse with him. The only aspects of Appellant's testimony that the rebuttal evidence rebutted were Appellant's denials of the improper accusations made during the prosecutor's cross-examination. In that respect, it was impeachment evidence, which will be discussed infra. To the extent that the evidence rebutted Appellant's assertion that he did not take A.B.'s photograph to satisfy an interest in his sex, it was either character evidence or evidence of motive, which will also be discussed infra.