Lannan v. State

ON CRIMINAL PETITION TO TRANSFER

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Donald Lan-nan of molesting young V.E., after hearing testimony from another girl who said Lan-nan had molested her in the past and testimony from the victim regarding several *1335other instances of molestation which were not charged. Lannan's petition for transfer asks this Court to abandon the so-called "depraved sexual instinct" exception under which evidence about these uncharged acts was admitted. We grant transfer to reexamine the exception, its rationales, and whether they remain compelling enough to justify…