State v. Eschenbrenner

Pursuant to RSA 606:10, 111(a) (2001), the State appeals an order of the Superior Court (Nadeau, C.J.) granting the defendant, Patrick Eschenbrenner, a new trial on three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, based on the court’s conclusion that the attorneys who represented him at trial provided ineffective assistance of counsel. We reverse.

I

The following facts are drawn from the record of the trial and the hearing on the defendant’s motion for a new trial. In October 1998, C.T., a nine year-old female, told her mother that the defendant had touched her genital area on numerous…