State v. Hopkins

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

The defendant, Charles A. Hopkins (Hopkins), urges us to overturn his conviction on five counts of sexually molesting his stepson when the boy was between nine and thirteen years old. To prove its ease, the prosecution introduced not only the stepson’s testimony but also evidence that Hopkins had allegedly sexually abused two other children when they were about the same age as the stepson: one James Snoke (Snoke), who was thirteen years old when Hopkins allegedly molested him, and one Charles Hopkins, Jr. (Hopkins, Jr.), Hopkins’s biological son, who testified that…