State v. Babcock

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

This pre-trial case involves a question certified by the trial court as important and doubtful. It deals with the scope of discovery of records of a private group home in a child sex abuse prosecution. We conclude that it is inappropriate for this court to answer the certified question and we remand to the trial court without an answer.

FACTS

Defendants Dorothy Babcock and Donald Matzdorf were charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse involving Dorothy Babcock’s teenage daughter, during the period from May 15,1983 to October 15,1983. Complainant had previously been the…