Frasco v. People

The defendant sought review of the court of appeals' judgment affirming his multiple *702convictions for the sexual and physical abuse of his step-daughter. Among other things, the defendant assigned error to the district court's decision to allow the jury unsupervised access to a videotaped interview of the child-victim, which had been admitted as an exhibit at trial. The court of appeals held that the district court did not err for the reason that C.R.C.P. 47(m) no longer prohibits unsupervised jury access to testimonial evidence, including videotaped interviews.

Because the district court did…