State v. Sanoski

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing inapplicability of harmless error rule for alternative means errors and declining to \consider[] anew the question\ absent a specific request to do so
• stating “the trustworthiness standard looks to the totality of the circumstances to assess both whether the crime occurred and whether the confession was trustworthy—i.e., reliable”
• finding defendant's admission to sexual misconduct unlikely to lead to improper jury verdict because misconduct involved same victim and conduct of same character
• declining to apply invited error when defendant did not object to, or request, the challenged instruction
• referring to \oral contact of genitalia\ as one general means of committing sodomy
• summarizing Perry’s Case, a 1661 English case in which John Perry was convicted for the murder of his master and executed based solely on a false confession, after which the alleged victim reappeared and explained that he had instead been kidnapped and sold into slavery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).