ALBANY – A man convicted of sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl must get a new trial because the jury heard statements in which the defendant allegedly described a previous uncharged sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl, an upstate appellate court has ruled.
The prosecution at Richard Brown’s 2011 trial failed to seek a ruling from the trial judge before eliciting statements from the mother of the girl Brown was accused of molesting, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Third Department panel noted in People v. Brown, 105062.
