Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 15, 2001No. 2000PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge CALABRESI concurs in a separate opinion.
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Jeffrey Washington was convicted in Bronx County Supreme Court of raping his then five-year-old daughter while she visited him for the weekend of April 13-14, 1991. The petitioner did not deny that his daughter had been sexually abused, but contended that she had been raped by someone else and then coached by her mother, and perhaps also her godmother, to blame the crime on him. To buttress this contention, he sought to introduce expert testimony on the suggestibility of young children when subjected to certain…
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