People v. Weiss

HOBBS, Justice.

In this prosecution for sexual assault and incest on a minor, we exercised our original jurisdiction under C.A.R. 21 to review the trial court’s admission of evidence concerning the alleged victim’s prior reports of sexual assault against persons other than the defendant. 1 The defendant made a motion to pierce the rape shield statute under the history of false reporting provisions of subsections 18-3-407(2) and (2)(a), C.R.S. (2005). 2 Defendant’s subsection 18-3-407(2)(b) affidavit in support of the motion asserted that the alleged victim had made a number of false reports of…