McFerguson v. United States

Appellant was charged, by indictment, with one count of attempted first degree sexual abuse, 1 two counts of enticing a child, 2 one count of second degree child sexual abuse, 3 and four counts of first degree child sexual abuse. 4 After a jury trial on all counts, appellant was convicted of two counts of the latter offense. On appeal he contends the trial judge committed reversible error in denying severance of the offenses and in allowing the prosecution to cross-examine defense character witnesses on the basis of a hypothetical assumption that appellant committed the acts alleged in the…