State v. Johnson

¶1 Gerald Johnson appeals his second degree child molestation conviction, claiming that (1) the *927trial court allowed impermissible opinion testimony from a lay witness; (2) counsel failed to object to the impermissible opinion testimony, depriving him of effective assistance; (3) the trial court’s instruction on corroborative evidence was an impermissible comment on the evidence; (4) and the trial court improperly imposed an exceptional sentence. We reverse because the trial court allowed impermissible and highly prejudicial lay witness testimony.

FACTS

¶2 In 1999, Mary Pfeifle and her family…