Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Tegels
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided October 27, 2016No. 16-cv-124-bbcPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge
In 2011, petitioner Richard Harrison, Jr. was" charged with repeated sexual assault of his then stepdaughter, D.M.K. There were no third-party witnesses to the alleged assaults and no physical evidence. Instead, the state relied entirely on a recorded interview that D.M.K. gave to the police and the trial testimony of D.M.K.’s mother, Kimberly, who recounted what D.M.K. allegedly told her about the assaults.
Petitioner’s theory of the case was that D.M.K’s mother persuaded her daughter to fabricate the allegations because petitioner and Kimberly…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. Richard H. Harrison, Jr.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 2020
- State v. HarrisonCourt of Appeals of Wisconsin · 2019