State v. Elston

HECHT, Justice.

This case is before us on further review of a court of appeals decision concluding the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant Mark Elston’s motion to sever a charge of indecent contact from charges of sexual exploitation and in preserving Elston’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel for possible postconviction proceedings. We affirm.

I. Factual and Procedural Background.

Mark Elston was a friend of Brenda Neff and her husband, Dale Neff. Brenda is the mother, and Dale the stepfather, of two female children, A.E. and her sister. Elston came to the…