State v. Woodburn

GLASSMAN, Justice.

The defendant, Calvin Woodburn, Sr., appeals from judgments of the Superior Court (Lincoln County, Bradford, J.) entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of-gross sexual misconduct, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 253 (Supp.1988), and unlawful sexual contact, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 255 (Supp.1988). Woodburn contends that the trial court erred 1) in refusing to permit individual voir dire of the jurors, 2) by excluding expert testimony concerning the ability of the victim to distinguish truth from falsehood, and 3) in finding the victim competent to testify. Woodburn also asserts that the…