State v. Catanio

OPINION

FACTS

This is the State’s appeal from a district court order granting respondent Cameron Catanio’s motion to dismiss three counts of lewdness with a minor based on a determination that the State failed to present sufficient evidence for the required finding of probable cause at the grand jury proceedings. The district court concluded that Catanio’s conduct did not satisfy all of the essential elements of lewdness with a minor. We disagree and therefore reverse.

Catanio worked as a teacher’s aide for special education students and as a volunteer assistant track coach at a middle school in…