Barrett v. Chouteau

How courts have described this case

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• “Given the character of the improper evidence and the gravity of its potential prejudicial impact, we cannot say that the trial court’s admission of uncharged acts of sexual assault was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• “Had the defendant, for example, ‘opened the door’ by directly challenging his daughters’ inability to recall particular detail about the charged sexual assaults, the State may well have been able to use the uncharged sexual assaults to rehabilitate its witnesses.”

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