Hanson v. State

Adams, Judge.

Following a bench trial, Dexter Lee Hanson was convicted of child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, and sexual battery. On appeal he contends the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict for enticement. He also challenges several evidentiary rulings and the failure of the court to merge Count 2 into Count 1.

1. Construed in favor of the verdict, the evidence shows that Hanson encouraged his stepdaughter, who was 12 and 13 years old at the times of the incidents, to watch movies that he, himself, characterized as pornographic, with him in his bedroom, and…