State v. R.B.

Following a retrial after his first jury was unable to agree on a verdict, defendant R.B. was convicted of various sexual abuse offenses involving his six-year-old stepson. On appeal to the Appellate Division, R.B. raised a number of challenges to both his convictions and sentence. The Appellate Division affirmed R.B.’s conviction but remanded for the imposition of a concurrent term on count three of the indictment rather than the consecutive term imposed by the trial court. R.B. raises before us the same challenges to his convictions that he presented to the Appellate Division.

We hold…