Hamm v. State

Betty C. Dickey, Justice.

Appellant Phillip Hamm was convicted of the rape of M.C., a minor, by a jury in the Faulkner County Circuit Court. The Arkansas Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the trial court and remanded for a new trial, ruling that the testimony of a witness for the State had been improperly admitted under the “pedophile exception” to Ark. R. Evid. 404(b). See Hamm v. State, 91 Ark. App. 177, 209 S.W.3d 414 (2005). We granted the State’s petition for review pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 2-4 (2005). We find no error and affirm the decision of the circuit court.

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