Legal Opinion
United States v. James Shaw
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1987No. 86-5363PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
After hearing testimony that James Shaw had engaged in numerous acts of sexual intercourse with S.A., his eleven year old foster daughter, a jury found Shaw guilty of seven counts of carnal knowledge, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153, 2032 (1982). Shaw’s primary contention on appeal is that the district court 1 erred in refusing to allow evidence of S.A.’s past sexual behavior for the purpose of proving that Shaw was not the person responsible for S.A.’s ruptured hymen. We conclude that the testimony at trial failed to establish that there was an “injury” under Federal Rule of…
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