State v. Willette

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

The State of Minnesota appeals a pretrial order prohibiting the use of certain testimony at respondent Richard Willette’s trial for criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. We remand for reconsideration.

FACTS

Around midnight on August 1, 1987, respondent’s wife, Sandra Willette, telephoned the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Department and asked the dispatcher to send someone to meet her at a local bar. When a deputy sheriff arrived, she told him that her husband had told her he had sexually molested S.L.P., an unrelated seven-year-old girl who, along with her mother, was…