Legal Opinion
Douglas Hicks v. Randall Hepp
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 7, 2017No. 15-3865PublishedCited by 164 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Douglas Hicks admitted to sexually molesting his victim, a former step-son, during a recorded phone call from a police station. During the call, and before the confession, the victim repeatedly threatened to harm Hicks and to tell Hicks’s other minor son about the abuse. Ultimately, Hicks was charged with sexually molesting the victim and tried by a jury. At trial, Hicks’s counsel played the entire 43-minute recorded conversation to the jury. Later, during the state’s rebuttal argument, the prosecutor referred to an earlier case in which Hicks had pleaded guilty after…
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