Pareja v. State

Melton, Justice.

In Pareja v. State, 295 Ga. App. 871 (673 SE2d 343) (2009), the Court of Appeals affirmed Pareja’s conviction for one count of child molestation, finding that the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict and that the trial court properly admitted certain similar transaction evidence. We granted certiorari to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in ruling that the trial court properly admitted, as a similar transaction, evidence of an act of molestation that Pareja committed 26 years before his conviction in this case. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

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