State of Tennessee v. Michael Ricardo Martin

On March 25, 2002, the defendant, Michael Ricardo Martin, was indicted by the Davidson County Grand Jury on two (2) counts of rape for an incident that occurred on November 27, 2001. A jury trial was held and the defendant was convicted of one (1) count of rape and one (1) count of sexual battery. The trial court sentenced the defendant to concurrent sentences of ten (10) years for the rape conviction and two (2) years for the sexual battery conviction. On appeal the defendant argues that the trial court erred by not granting his motion for judgment of acquittal, by granting the State's motion in limine regarding evidence concerning a prior hymenal injury sustained by the victim and by sentencing the defendant to a ten (10) year effective sentence. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.