State v. Martin

1 58 I respectfully dissent. While I concur with the lead opinion that the evidence regarding the victim's past acceptance of a ride to school is not prohibited by rule 412, I find it both to be of marginal relevance at best and unlikely to produce a different result on retrial. I would not reverse the trial court on that basis.

$54 As eloquently described in the lead opinion, at issue is evidence regarding an incident when the victim accepted a ride to school from a stranger. The lead opinion finds this evidence to, be particularly telling regarding the dispute between the victim and the…