State v. Scott

The defendant appeals from his jury trial convictions for kidnapping and rape. His nine assignments of error complain that the court declined to (a) appoint an experimental psychologist at public expense as a prospective witness, (b) suppress the victim’s identification testimony, (c) provide additional jury instructions about the significance of alibi evidence, (d) allow evidence that the police conducted a polygraph examination of the victim, and (e) grant a new trial for allegedly concealed exculpatory impeachment evidence. None of these contentions has merit, so we affirm the trial…