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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE
Assigned on Briefs August 21, 2007

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSEPH HALL
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for McMinn County
No. 05-379 R. Steven Bebb, Judge

No. E2006-02403-CCA-R3-CD - Filed October 9, 2007
Following a jury trial, Joseph Hall was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual battery. Defendant was sentenced to ten years for each count to run concurrently.  On appeal, Defendant argues (1) the trial court erred by failing to require that the state provide defense counsel with taped forensic interviews of the victims; (2) the evidence was legally insufficient to convict Defendant of aggravated sexual battery; and (3) the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of attempted aggravated sexual battery. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgments of the Circuit Court Affirmed
THOM AS T. WOODALL, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAVID G. HAYES and ROBERT
W. WEDEMEYER, JJ. joined.
Charles Richard Hughes, Jr., District Public Defender; and William C. Donaldson, Assistant Public Defender, Madisonville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joseph Hall.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Cameron L. Hyder, Assistant Attorney General; Jerry N. Estes, District Attorney General; and Wylie Richardson, Assistant District Attorney General for the appellee, the State of Tennessee.

OPINION
I. Background
Defendant

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