Pirnat v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

The State has petitioned for rehearing after our granting of appellant's petition to transfer in Pirnat v. State (1992), Ind., 600 N.E.2d 1342. We write today to clarify our brief opinion in that case.

Pirnat was decided on the same day as Lannan v. State (1992), 600 N.E.2d 1334. In Lonnan, we revisited the depraved sexual instinct exception and announced a new rule concerning the admissibility of prior bad acts in sex offense cases. Pirnat's petition raised a similar challenge to the use of depraved sexual instinct evidence. In accepting Pirnat's transfer petition, we…