State v. Perez

*100¶1 A jury convicted Carlos M. Perez of reckless endangerment for firing a BB gun at a target held by a four-year-old child. He assigns error to a number of the court’s rulings on evidence. The court admitted statements made by the child victim to a social worker and a police officer. The court allowed the social worker to opine that the child was traumatized by the event. And the court found the child was competent to testify despite fantastic statements he made during a pretrial hearing. Allowing the child to testify was a discretionary call by the trial judge, and we find no abuse of that…