Court Opinion

ID: 9539110
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:47:03.345566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:27.630825
License: Public Domain

ADDENDUM
On Denial Of Petition For Rehearing
Our opinion states that when the preliminary hearing was continued, Wuthrich had an “[additional opportunity to cross-examine the victim____” In a petition for rehearing, Wuthrich now argues that no such “opportunity” existed because the prosecutor did not recall the victim as a witness when the hearing resumed. The argument is ill-founded. Wuthrich’s opportunity for additional cross-examination did not depend upon actions of the prosecutor. Wuthrich could have secured the child’s attendance by court order. He did not seek to do so. Moreover, several weeks had elapsed between suspension and resumption of the preliminary hearing. During the interim, a record of the child’s earlier testimony could have been used to prepare cross-examination.
In any event, Wuthrich’s petition does not address the basic infirmity of his appeal. The record contains no particularized basis for holding that events at the preliminary hearing reasonably could have affected his defense at trial. Accordingly, the petition for rehearing is denied.
WALTERS, C.J., and SWANSTROM, J., concur.