State v. Burns

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

We granted the petition of the state for review of a 2-1 decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the conviction of defendant for sexually abusing his 2V2-year-old daughter and granting him a new trial. The Court of Appeals based the reversal on the fact that the trial court did not conduct a hearing before admitting the hearsay statements of the victim to her mother, to a social worker, and to the doctor who examined her. State v. Burns, 390 N.W.2d 819 (Minn.App.1986). The dissent argued that it was error to grant a new trial because defendant never requested a…