State v. Villanueva

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Abbott, J.:

Following two trials in the Wyandotte County District Court, Jesse Joseph Villanueva, Jr., was convicted by a jury of raping his former girlfriend S.M. on November 15, 1998. Villanueva’s first trial ended in a hung jury. After the second jury convicted Villanueva of one count of rape, the trial court sentenced Villanueva to 254 months in the custody of the Secretary of Corrections.

Villanueva appealed his conviction, asserting error in: (1) the admission of testimony of social worker Michele Paynter on symptoms of rape trauma syndrome; (2)…