Opinion ID: 867372
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Child molestation

Text: ¶ 48 Pandeli also claims that the trial court improperly allowed one former girlfriend to testify that Pandeli molested her daughter. Pandeli's counsel argued that this evidence was admissible; therefore, we must review for fundamental error. Id. at ¶ 19, 115 P.3d at 607. ¶ 49 The witness testified that one night, when Pandeli was drunk, he crawled into her four-year-old daughter's bed and molested her. She also testified about the impact of that abuse on her daughter's life. This testimony was damaging. ¶ 50 We conclude that there was no reversible error, however, because Pandeli invited the error. At trial, the court asked whether Pandeli's counsel objected to the child molestation testimony and he explicitly stated that he did not. He agreed that the testimony was admissible other act evidence. This court has long held that `a defendant who invited error at trial may not then assign the same as error on appeal.' Moody, 208 Ariz. at 453, ¶ 111, 94 P.3d at 1148 (quoting State v. Endreson, 109 Ariz. 117, 122, 506 P.2d 248, 253 (1973)). Pandeli therefore may not assert error on this point on appeal.