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Final Copy 289 Ga. 758 S10G1958. STEPHENS v. THE STATE.

NAHMIAS, Justice. Appellant Bradley Stephens was convicted of incest against his stepdaughter, following sexual abuse that began when the victim was five years old and continued until she was sixteen, when he impregnated her and took her to get an abortion. The trial court sentenced Appellant to twenty years in prison, with the first ten years to be served in confinement and the balance to be served on probation with a number of special conditions. The Court of Appeals affirmed Appellant's conviction but vacated his sentence and remanded the case for resentencing due to the trial court's erroneous imposition of special conditions of parole in addition to special conditions of probation. See Stephens v. State, 305 Ga. App. 339, 340 (699 SE2d 558) (2010). Appellant's petition for certiorari to answer two questions: 1. Should a trial court give a jury instruction on prior consistent statements? See Council of Superior Court Judges Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions,

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