State v. McCarthy

In this appeal from his conviction for lewd or lascivious conduct with a child, 13 V.S.A. § 2602, defendant makes numerous challenges to the admissibility of the child’s videotaped testimony and the evidence to impeach his character witnesses. Although defendant failed to preserve his claims of error, we find plain error in the admission of evidence about an unrelated incident with another child and reverse the conviction and remand for a new trial.

On November 20, 1987, the child-complainant was invited to stay with the mother of a friend after she complained that her mother was beating and…