State v. Mohapatra

I am fully persuaded of the correctness of the majority’s holdings concerning (1) the admissibility in this case of the evidence of the defendant’s uncharged purported prior sexual misconduct vis-a-vis the complainant herself and (2) the verdict form issue. I therefore join without reservations in those holdings and in the underlying legal analysis. With respect to the testimony of Kim Baldino, however, I feel compelled to dissent — although I readily acknowledge the thoughtful nature of the majority’s approach to the vexing eviden-tiary issue which that testimony implicates.

In my view, the…