State v. Fisher

¶1 — Timothy Scott Fisher seeks review of an unpublished Court of Appeals, Division Three, decision affirming Fisher’s guilty verdict on four counts of child molestation. Fisher claims he deserves a new trial based on the following assignments of error: improper admission of misconduct evidence under ER 404(b), prosecutorial misconduct, erroneous exclusion of bias evidence, and inadequate jury instructions. We hold Fisher did not receive a fair trial and reverse the Court of Appeals.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶2 In 2003, Melanie Lincoln told her mother, Judy Ward, that Fisher had…