Court Opinion

ID: 9586949
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:16:48.051426+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:57.303089
License: Public Domain

HALL, Chief Justice
(concurring and dissenting):
I agree that the trial court erred in admitting the opinion evidence of the State’s expert witness. However, I am not persuaded that the error was other than harmless.
The case was tried to the court, sitting without a jury, and the evidence of the 17-year-old victim, standing alone, is sufficient to meet the State’s burden of proof. I am thus of the view that in the absence of the evidentiary error, there would not have been a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for defendant.
I would affirm the conviction and judgment.