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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gundrum finds the circuit court improperly granted defendant's motion for a new trial in a case in which he was convicted in 2001 of four counts related to his alleged sexual assault of his seven-year-old step-daughter on two occasions in 1998 and 1999. Defendant's confrontation clause challenge to the admission of out-of-court statements from his step-daughter and her younger brother and his claim that he was denied a fair trial by being unable to cross-examine a witness for the state regarding immunity he was granted for his testimony both fail, as the statements admitted at trial were either non-testimonial or ultimately harmless and, while the state and defendant agree the circuit court erred by keeping defendant from cross-examining the physician witness for the state, the error was also harmless in that it would not have meaningfully affected the outcome of the trial. On remand the circuit court is directed to reinstate defendant's 2013 amended judgment of conviction. Reversed.