Legal Opinion
United States v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 5, 2010No. 09-1036PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
After a jury trial, Peter James Smith was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153 and 2241(c). Smith appeals, arguing that the district court 1 erred by admitting a 40-minute DVD recording of a forensic interview of the child victim and by admitting the lay opinion testimony of the forensic interviewer under Federal Rule of Evidence 701. For the following reasons, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In December 2006, Smith and his girlfriend, Priscilla Bear, babysat B.R., then eight years old, at B.R.’s home. Immediately…
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