State v. Noah

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rosen, J.:

The State petitioned this court to review the Court of Appeals’ decision reversing Billy Ray Noah’s convictions of four counts of aggravated indecent liberties. The State claims that the Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that the district court had improperly admitted hearsay statements from the child victim in violation of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 158 L. Ed. 2d 177, 124 S. Ct. 1354 (2004).

Because we are not addressing the sufficiency of the evidence, we will limit our recitation of the facts to those necessary for the…