Traver v. State

KRAHULIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant, Randy Traver, was convicted by a jury of two counts of child molestation and one count of incest. He was sentenced to two 20-year terms for *1011the molestation convictions, to be served consecutively, and to a four-year term for the incest conviction, to be served concurrently with the molestation convictions. Traver raises a number of issues in this direct appeal, but our decision makes it necessary to decide only whether certain Patterson statements were improperly admitted.

For the reasons stated below, we reverse the child molestation convictions and the…