State v. Santana-Lopez

¶ 1. Miguel Angel Santana-Lopez appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of first-degree sexual assault of a child, see *334Wis. Stat. § 948.02(1).1 He claims that the trial court erroneously exercised its discretion in preventing him from testifying that he offered to take a DNA test. We agree and remand for further proceedings.

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¶ 2. Santana-Lopez, now fifty years old, was charged and convicted of forcibly licking, and penetrating with his finger, the vaginal area of the six-year-old granddaughter of the woman with whom he lived. On the second day of trial, the prosecutor…