State v. Guzman
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's convictions of first-degree rape and sexual contact, holding that Defendant was not entitled to relief on any of his allegations of error.
After a second trial, a jury found Defendant guilty of sexually assaulting two of his children and one of his children's friends and sentenced him to life imprisonment on each of the three counts of first-degree rape and fifteen years on the sexual contact count, all to run consecutively. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the circuit court (1) abused its discretion in excluding witness testimony offered in Defendant's case-in-chief, but the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; (2) did not err in allowing the State to admit a trial transcript of Defendant's testimony from his first trial; (3) did not abuse its discretion in allowing the State to admit other act evidence and expert testimony; and (4) did not abuse its discretion in ordering Defendant to pay certain costs of prosecution.
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