SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
The appellant's conviction on several counts of child molestation must be reversed for a new trial because the record below is riddled with prejudicial error. We find it necessary to discuss briefly only the most prominent.
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First, for what we think and hope is the first and last time in legal history, an assistant state attorney was permitted to be called as a witness in the case and to testify, allegedly as "background...
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