Lloyd v. United States

TERRY, Senior Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of first-degree cruelty to children.1 On appeal, he argues (1) that the trial court abused its discretion by permitting the jury to see an illustration of a fist punching a child’s liver, and (2) that the trial court plainly erred when it allowed the prosecutor to question him about whether two other witnesses had fabricated their testimony against him. We agree with appellant that the illustration should not have been shown to the jury without a cautionary instruction, but we hold that any error was harmless. We also agree that…