PEOPLE v. MELENDEZ

No. 01CA0888.

80 P.3d 883 (2003)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jorge E. MELENDEZ, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 2003.

Certiorari Granted December 1, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ken Salazar, Attorney General, Patricia R. Van Horn, Assistant Attorney General, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

M. Colin Bresee, Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellant.


Opinion by Judge VOGT.

Defendant, Jorge E. Melendez, Jr., appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of multiple counts of aggravated incest, sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child-pattern of abuse, and sexual assault on a child under fifteen by one in a position of trust. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

A seven-year-old girl told her grandparents that she had been sexually abused on several occasions...

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