Opinion ID: 2270644
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Text: A jury convicted Daniel Clark of two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree for which he was sentenced to a total of ten years' imprisonment. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals affirmed Clark's convictions, and we granted discretionary review. Clark contends that the trial court erred (1) by refusing to instruct the jury on sexual abuse in the second degree, (2) by permitting the Commonwealth to present testimony to the jury of Clark's prior sexual misconduct involving another victim, and (3) by refusing to permit him to play for the jury a social worker's videotaped interviews of the alleged victims. We find merit in Clark's first two arguments, and we reverse on those issues. Of necessity, we find no error in Clark's third contention because the videotapes are not in the record for us to review.