State v. Thompson
State v. Thompson
Opinion of the Court
*880Appealing a judgment of conviction for attempted sodomy in the second degree and attempted sodomy in the first degree, defendant assigns error to (1) the trial court's denial of his motion for a mistrial, based on the state's failure to disclose recorded interviews of multiple witnesses until near the end of trial; (2) the trial court's admission of expert testimony regarding grooming without an adequate foundation to establish its scientific validity; and (3) the trial court's instruction to the jury that it could render a nonunanimous verdict, and the court's acceptance of nonunanimous verdicts.
We reject without written discussion defendant's challenge to the denial of his motion for a mistrial and his plain error challenges implicating jury unanimity. As for defendant's contention regarding the admission of the expert testimony regarding *735grooming, we are not persuaded by the state's argument that this case is distinguishable from State v. Henley ,
Reversed and remanded.
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