STATE v. BURNS

No. C3-85-2330.

394 N.W.2d 495 (1986)

STATE of Minnesota, petitioner, Appellant, v. Gregory A. BURNS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Thomas Foley, Ramsey Co. Atty., Darrell C. Hill, Asst. Co. Atty., St. Paul, for appellant.

C. Paul Jones, Asst. Public Defender, Anne McDiarmid, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

We granted the petition of the state for review of a 2-1 decision of the Court of Appeals reversing the conviction of defendant for sexually abusing his 2½-year-old daughter and granting him a new trial. The Court of Appeals based the reversal on the fact that the trial court did not conduct a hearing before admitting the hearsay statements of the victim to her mother, to a social worker, and to the doctor who examined her. State v....

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