State v. Curtis

I dissent.

The judgment of the trial court should be affirmed.

A. Defendant’s right to confront the juvenile witness was not denied.

Defendant’s motion for a mistrial was made at the close of the state’s case. The motion stated the following:

The main ground is that the State called as its principal witness the juvenile co-defendant, . . . and intentionally and with good reasons from the State’s standpoint asked only limited number [sic] of questions which would clearly implicate and incriminate the defendant, Bruce Curtis, as having been at the scene of this incident on August 19th and 20th,…