Schwan v. State

HOLLAND, Justice:

This is the direct appeal of the defendant-appellant, Steven Schwan (“Schwan”), after a Superior Court jury convicted him of two counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact in the Second Degree, and a bench trial resulted in an additional conviction for Unlawful Sexual Conduct by a Sex Offender Against a Child. Schwan raises one argument on appeal: that the trial judge committed reversible error by not excluding, for cause, a juror who was acquainted with a prosecutor, although that same prosecutor was not involved in Schwan’s case.

We have concluded that the trial judge erred by…