The State v. Arline.

After a jury found Ronald Arline guilty of aggravated child molestation, rape, and child molestation, the trial court granted his motion for new trial on the general grounds. The state appeals, arguing that the trial court applied the wrong standard in granting the motion and that, in granting it, the trial court showed bias against the state. We affirm. 1

The trial court found dispositive the alleged victim's revelation to prosecutors-on the seventh day of trial, after the state had rested-that, contrary to what she had said up to that moment, she had been sexually active with an adult male…