California v. Christensen
Annotate this CaseDefendant Scott Christensen was convicted of multiple counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14. In his first trial, he was convicted with respect to his acts against one victim, Spencer S., but the jury deadlocked with respect to his acts against another victim, Joshua K. Defendant argued on appeal that the trial court made various errors in the retrial on the counts pertaining to Joshua. He says the court erred in admitting both the testimony Joshua gave in the first trial and the evidence of the prior offense against Spencer. He also argued that his convictions should have been reversed due to prosecutorial misconduct and that his sentence of 27 years to life was excessive. After review, the Court of Appeal disagreed as to both of defendant's contentions and affirmed his conviction and sentence.
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