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Criminal Law : Expert Witness – Child Molestation – Sufficiency Of Evidence
Stephanie Maniscalco//May 11, 2016//
Where a defendant convicted of charges including statutory sodomy and child molestation challenged an evidentiary ruling during defense counsel’s direct examination of an expert defense witness, the defendant did not show prejudice from the ruling, and the evidence was sufficient to support the first-degree statutory sodomy conviction based on victim testimony, but the judgment is modified to reconcile the difference between the written and oral pronouncements of sentence.
Judgment is affirmed in part; modified.
State v. Wilson (MLW No. 69160/Case No. ED102714 – 12 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Clayton III, J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Francois County, Pearson III, J. (Rosalynn Koch for appellant) (Chris Koster and Gregory L. Barnes for respondent).
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