Defendant’s conviction and sentence for various sex offenses against four victims is reversed as to one of the counts as the court erred in admitting a witness’s hearsay statements and the error was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt as to defendant’s conviction for that count.  

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Filed October 22, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge Willhite

Counsel

For Appellant:  Richard A. Levy

For Appellee:  Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Robert David Breton, Deputy Attorneys General

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