Myer v. State

In this criminal case involving sexual abuse to a minor, we must decide if the trial court abused its discretion when it did not allow the defendant to recall the child-witness for additional cross-examination after the court admitted into evidence a videotaped interview between a social worker and the child-witness after the child-witness had testified. We shall hold that the trial court abused its discretion in denying petitioner the opportunity to cross-examine the child-witness after the video-tape had been admitted into evidence.

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Robert Lee Myer, petitioner, was indicted in the Circuit…