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STATE v. SONEN

No. 17667.

492 N.W.2d 303 (1992)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. James SONEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided November 10, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Geaghan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

Timothy J. Wilka of Wilka Law Office, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.

WUEST, Justice.

James Sonen (Sonen) appeals his convictions for two counts of sexual contact with a child under sixteen years of age. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

FACTS

D.M. (victim), age 15, lived in Coleman, South Dakota. During trial, he testified about a series of twenty to twenty-five incidents of sexual contact by Sonen, age 34, that occurred between the summers of 1989 and 1990. Victim first reported these incidents to the authorities...

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