Legal Opinion
United States v. Stephanie Petra-Georgia Short
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 5, 1986No. 85-5494PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
In this federal assimilative crimes case arising at the Army Base at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the defendant, Stephanie Petra-Georgia Short, appeals her conviction and 20 year sentence for aiding and abetting her husband’s sexual abuse of her three-year-old daughter in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 13 and Kentucky Revised Statutes § 510.070. The issues concern the admissibility of her incriminating statements given on the evening of September 24, 1984, and the next morning and the testimony of a social worker about the behavior of the daughter. We hold that the social…
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