Auclair v. State

RAPER, Justice.

Paul Auclair (appellant) was found guilty by a jury and sentenced on three criminal counts1 arising from an incestuous relationship he engaged in with his thirteen year-old daughter. During the trial the transcript of a recorded telephone conversation between appellant and his daughter, held before appellant was arrested, was introduced and received into evidence by the trial judge over his objection. Appellant raises on appeal the following issue:

“Was the appellant[’]s Sixth Amendment right to counsel denied by the use and introduction into evidence at trial, of the transcript…