The Connecticut Supreme Court last week reinstated the conviction of a Watertown man convicted of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s young son. The boy testified at trial when he was 14 that Charles Warholic assaulted him 50 to 60 times over a two year period beginning in 1992, when the boy was five. The victim is now 20 years old.
The high court’s ruling in State v. Warholicreversed a decision by the Appellate Court in 2004 that prosecutorial misconduct deprived the defendant of a fair trial. In a lengthy opinion authored by Justice Christine S. Vertefeuille, the court overruled almost every one of the 20 instances of alleged misconduct found by the Appellate Court.
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