State v. Gary S.

Summary

The court reversed the defendant’s conviction for risk of injury to a child involving A because the evidence did not establish the required contact with the defendant’s intimate parts, and it directed entry of an acquittal on that count. It upheld the three sexual-assault convictions involving S, concluding that the evidence permitted the jury to find that the defendant was responsible for her general supervision. Although the prosecutor made improper remarks concerning D’s domestic abuse and remarriage, those remarks did not deprive the defendant of a fair trial because they were isolated, unobjected to, mitigated by jury instructions, and unlikely to have affected the verdict.