State v. Olutunde
Annotate this CaseDefendant was charged with dependent adult abuse for allegedly punching a disabled client while Defendant was employed at a home caring for dependent adults. Defendant was charged with dependent adult abuse. The State filed a motion in limine as to the admissibility of evidence of Defendant’s prior violent acts or findings of dependent adult abuse. The State also filed a motion to unseal a previous founded dependent adult abuse report that was over ten years old. The district court granted the State’s motion to unseal the records and conditionally granted the State’s motion in limine to allow the State to use the existence of the report at trial to impeach Defendant or his character witnesses. The Supreme Court (1) reversed the district court’s ruling that unsealed the record of a founded report of dependent adult abuse by Defendant, holding that the legislature did not intend that the district court open sealed records regarding founded dependent adult abuse; and (2) declined to issue an advisory opinion on the scope of permissible impeachment at trial.
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