In Brief
A man challenged his rape conviction for abusing a 6-year-old child from an incident 20 years prior. Both the trial and appeals courts had found him guilty based on the child's testimony, her mother's eyewitness account, recovered physical evidence, his proven potency, and his flight from the scene. The Supreme Court refused to re-examine these concurrent factual findings and dismissed the petition, finding no reason to reduce the mandatory 10-year minimum sentence, especially as the State had not appealed and significant time had passed.
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