Democrat Habitual child sex offender loses appeal

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Matthew Stock

A man deemed a habitual child sex offender by the courts had his appeal
tossed by the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday. 

Matthew Stock, 54, is serving an 18-year to life sentence in the
Sterling Correctional Facility after being convicted of sexually
assaulting one child and acquitted of sexually assaulting a different
child. He was deemed by the court to be a habitual child sex offender
because he was on parole for a previous sexual assault on a child
conviction. 

In his appeal, Stock contended that the court improperly allowed the
playing of a forensic interview with one of the children during the
trial. 

The child hearsay statute, which Stock cited in his appeal, has an
exception for child victims of sexual assault, according to the appeals
court. 

Also, according to the appeals court, the victim testified during the
trial, and the testimony matched the information in the forensic
interview. 

”Stock has failed to meet his burden to demonstrate how the order in
which the evidence was presented impacted the fundamental fairness of
his trial,” the appeals court wrote in an unpublished opinion (meaning
it did not set a precedent) Thursday. 

Stock also contended the court should not have allowed the testimony of
an expert witness who opined on the victim’s credibility and bolstered
the credibility of the investigator on the case. 

The appeals court ruled that the defense did not object to the testimony
during the trial, and so the testimony was admissible. 

Stock also argued his sentence was disproportionate to the nature of the
offense, but the appeals court disagreed, saying child sex assault as a
charge is “per se grave and serious.” 

”Considering Stock’s predicate and triggering offenses in combination,
we conclude that they are not ‘so lacking in gravity or seriousness’
that a sentence of eighteen years to life for the triggering offense is
grossly disproportionate.” the appeals court wrote. 

Stock is in the middle of a federal lawsuit against the Mesa County
Commissioners alleging he was mistreated while in custody in the Mesa
County Detention Facility. 

A paraplegic, Stock has accused the county of violating the Americans
with Disabilities Act after suffering a spinal cord injury in a cell
that did not have safety bars. 

Stock was already a paraplegic when he was booked in to the jail,
according to the lawsuit, and originally was placed in a cell that did
have safety bars. However, he was moved to a different cell without
safety bars as punishment for allegedly stealing a piece of cake from
another inmate (Stock has said the other inmate gave him the cake), and
experienced a second spinal cord injury while transferring himself from
his wheelchair to the toilet. 

Mesa County has denied the allegations in the lawsuit.


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