Alvarado v. State

Judge ALLARD, writing for the Court.

Following a jury trial, Stephen W. Alvarado was convicted of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor based on evidence that he sexually abused his six-year-old daughter, S.S., on two separate occasions.1 At sentencing, the court imposed a composite sentence of 57 years and 6 months to serve. Alvarado challenges both his convictions and his sentence, raising four claims of error.

Alvarado argues first that the superior court erred when it took judicial notice of Alvarado's date of birth and then instructed the jury that it was required to accept…