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NO. COA10-464
NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS
Filed: 21 June 2011

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
v. Halifax County
No. 08CRS054787

KENNEDY EDMONDS Defendant.
Appeal by defendant from judgments entered on or about 20 November 2009 by Judge Alma L. Hinton in Superior Court, Halifax County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 11 October 2010.
Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III by Assistant Attorney General Sonya M. Calloway-Durham, for the State.
Paul F. Herzog, for defendant-appellant.
STROUD, Judge.
Defendant appeals from his convictions for statutory rape and indecent liberties with a child. He alleges there were constitutional and statutory errors in his conviction arising from limitations upon his cross-examination of the prosecuting witness, the admission of evidence, and the limitations upon his closing arguments.  We disagree and find no error.
I. Background
Defendant was indicted for statutory rape of a person who is 13, 14, or 15 years old and indecent liberties with a child.
He was convicted by a jury on 20 November 2009 of statutory rape of a fifteen year old and indecent liberties with a child. Defendant was sentenced to consecutive terms of 336 months to 413 months for the charge of statutory rape of a child and 21 to 26 months for the charge of taking indecent liberties with a child.
At trial, the State presented evidence that defendant telephoned Carolyn, a fifteen-year-old girl, to ask her to come to his home to pick up a camera and some money she was owed for babysitting.1 When she arrived at defendant

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