State v. Chase

The state appeals from an order of the circuit court allowing defendant’s motion in limine prohibiting the state from introducing certain evidence at trial.

Defendant, an adult male schoolteacher, was indicted for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (marijuana) to a minor, who was a student attending defendant’s school. The state sought to show that, while defendant was inviting the minor to his home to smoke marijuana, defendant discussed defendant’s alleged homosexual orientation with the minor, and that shortly thereafter, while at defendant’s home and after furnishing marijuana to…