State v. Karngar

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

On September 11, 2008, a jury found the defendant, Emmanuel T. Karngar (Karn-gar or defendant), guilty of breaking and entering into the apartment of his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Kaitlin McCarthy (McCarthy). The defendant filed a motion for a new trial, asking the court to determine that because of the complaining witness’s contradictory statements, her testimony was not worthy of belief and that therefore a new trial was warranted.

This case came before the Supreme Court on October 6, 2011, on defendant’s appeal from a judgment of conviction in the…