Amin v. State

CARDINE, Justice.

This appeal is from appellant Abdula Amin’s conviction of first degree sexual assault pursuant to § 6-2-302(a)(ii), W.S. 1977 1 for which he was sentenced to a term of not less than eight nor more than twenty years. We will affirm.

The question presented to us in this case is whether appellant was denied the right to confront a witness against him when the trial court refused to allow cross-examination concerning the witness’s prior juvenile court record.

On July 20, 1983, the victim, age seventeen, arrived in downtown Cheyenne en route to his home in Sioux City, Iowa. As he…