State v. Cartee

Defendant Richard Cartee was tried by a jury and convicted of two counts of sexual assault of a person under the age of sixteen pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 3252(a)(3) (statutory rape). He appeals, claiming that the trial court abused its discretion and violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation in two ways: First, by excluding evidence that complainant may have fabricated the charges to protect his stepfather, who had been implicated by defendant in committing an insurance fraud, and, second, by excluding impeachment evidence of complainant’s prior juvenile adjudication for sexual…