Admission of Evidence Other-acts Evidence.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

WI Court of Appeals District II

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Wayne D. Herbes

Case No.: 2019AP2081-CR

Officials: Neubauer, C.J., Gundrum and Davis, JJ.

Focus: Admission of Evidence Other-acts Evidence

Wayne Herbes appeals from a judgment of conviction for three counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child and an order denying his postconviction motion. The charges related to Herbes having sexual contact with his then-girlfriend's granddaughter in 2011. Herbes argues the circuit court erroneously admitted at trial other acts evidence in the form of testimony from his adoptive daughter that Herbes had molested her hundreds of times between 1976 and 1981, when she was between the ages...