Sufficiency of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//August 9, 2017//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. J.L.B.

Case No.: 2016AP358

Officials: SHERMAN, J.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

J.B. appeals from an order of the circuit court adjudicating him delinquent based upon a finding by the court that he committed first-degree sexual assault with a child under the age of thirteen, contrary to WIS. STAT. §§ 948.02(1)(e) and 939.50(3)(b). J.B. also appeals from the circuit court’s order denying his postdisposition motion for a new trial. J.B. contends that he is entitled to a new trial because the circuit court erred in granting the State’s motion to admit the victim’s videotaped statement and because the evidence was insufficient to support the court’s finding that he committed first-degree sexual assault. For the reasons discussed below, I affirm.

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