State v. Roden

*606Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for 11 offenses related to the death of his girlfriend's daughter and injuries to his girlfriend's sons. In his first of two assignments of error, he challenges the admission of expert testimony on bite marks, arguing that it failed to meet the Brown / O'Key standards for scientific evidence.1 The state concedes that the admission was erroneous, but argues that the evidence had little likelihood of affecting the jury's verdict as to any counts. We conclude that the error was harmless as to some counts but reversible for those counts related to…