Court Opinion

ID: 9639541
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:22:31.751445+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:35.909978
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*437PAUL W. GREEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent because I believe the trial judge acted within its discretion in limiting Saglimbeni’s questioning of N.B. and his mother regarding a previous, unrelated, sexual assault on N.B.’s sister by a cousin.
The proof of N.B.’s assault, according to the State, was the evidence of his declining social behavior after the time of his alleged assault by Saglimbeni. Saglimbeni wanted to show, instead, that N.B.’s behavior could be explained by the fact that he was negatively affected by the incident involving his sister. In the bill of exception, however, N.B. testified that if the assault on his sister affected him, it’s effect was only “very, very, small.” If there was error, it was harmless.