State v. Carter

A jury in the Superior Court (O’Neil, J.) found the defendant, Donald Carter, guilty of aggravated felonious sexual assault, RSA 632-A:2 (1986). The defendant argues that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the State, pursuant to New Hampshire Rule of Evidence 404(b), to introduce evidence that he had perpetrated other sex-related crimes upon the victim. We reverse and remand.

In 1993, the State charged the defendant with sexually penetrating his stepdaughter, Michelle B., sometime between August 1984 and August 1985, when she was fourteen years old. The defendant filed a…