State v. Cavanaugh
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of first-degree sexual assault and four counts of second-degree child molestation sexual assault. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgments of conviction, holding that the superior court did not commit reversible error in (1) denying Defendant’s motion to pass the case after the State alluded to an “empty chair”; (2) failing to exclude the victim’s testimony that she had witnessed Defendant inappropriately touching another small child after the child not be located in order to corroborate the allegation; and (3) denying Defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal on two counts in the indictment.
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