Opinion ID: 1742617
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Heading: the may 2002 trial.

Text: On May 20 and 21, 2002, Appellant was tried by a Fulton Circuit Court jury on the sodomy 1st and PFO 1st charges contained in indictment number 01-CR-00015. The handgun charge was severed from the indictment for purposes of trial. RCr 9.16. Pursuant to KRE 404(c), the Commonwealth gave pretrial notice of its intent to introduce evidence pertaining to Appellant's prior sexual offense convictions during the guilt phase of the trial. The trial court ruled in limine that it would permit evidence pertaining to the 1995 convictions but not the 1989 convictions. As it turned out, the Commonwealth did not introduce any evidence pertaining to the 1995 convictions. Appellant's defense was a complete denial. He claimed that when he learned that the police had been to his home, he could not face Crumble and decided to commit suicide because he knew she had learned that he was a convicted felon and would leave him. He also claimed that when he told the police, I did what they say I did, he was referring to his prior convictions. Further, Jawan Ghoulson testified as a defense witness that Crumble told him after Appellant's arrest that [Appellant] didn't do it. A mistrial was declared when the jury was unable to reach a verdict. On some unknown date after the mistrial, the grand jury rendered indictment number 02-CR-00122, charging Appellant with violating the Sex Offender Registration Act on May 23, 2002, two days after the mistrial of his sodomy/PFO trial. This time, unlike indictment number 01-CR-00088, the grand jury added a charge of PFO 1st. The significance of the date of May 23, 2002, is unknown. Appellant still resided in the Fulton County Jail on that date and had not changed his address since signing the new registry form on November 8, 2001.