A new trial has been ordered for a man convicted of aggravated child molestation after his defense attorneys told the judge they’d overheard the prosecutor confide to a juror after the trial that the victim had recanted his testimony on one of the two alleged incidents.
Instead of informing opposing counsel, said defense attorney Barry Hazen, the assistant district attorney allowed the trial to proceed on the two-count indictment without disclosing that one of the counts was based on testimony the state knew had been retracted.
