State v. Lee

KEITH, Chief Justice.

We granted the state’s petition for review of a decision of the court of appeals granting a new trial to defendant, King Buachee Lee, a leader in the Hmong-American immigrant community in St. Paul convicted of three counts of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree for three separate acts of rape of two different Hmong-American immigrant women. The court of appeals ruled the trial court prejudicially erred (a) in upholding the invocation of the marital privilege to exclude certain evidence the defense claims would have been favorable to defendant, and (b) in allowing…