Court Opinion

ID: 9585190
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:57:20.459007+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:33:56.468774
License: Public Domain

Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur fully with all that is said in the majority opinion.
State’s exhibit 12 depicting close-up pornography photographs of group sodomy sex copulations may have been inflammatory to the jury, but they were properly identified by both young ladies who were the victims. They testified that defendant showed the pornography photographs to them as a kind of suggested outline or blueprint of the performance he expected: "This is what you are going to be doing tonight.” The evidence reflected that this was exactly the performance he required — first, the girls were forced to commit sodomy on him, by taking turns, and second, he compelled them to commit sodomy on each other, all as shown by the pornography photographs. There was no error in admitting the photographs that belonged to the defendant, as the jury may have made the permissible inferences that viewing paraphernalia of pornographic photographs may have encouraged defendant’s initial perpetration of the crimes of kidnapping and sodomy, or, at least aided in showing his intent thereof.