State v. Lund

Defendant Richard Lund appeals his jury conviction in the Orange District Court of one count of sexual assault on a minor, 13 V.S.A. § 3252(a)(3). Defendant claims the trial court denied him his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation by excluding evidence under Vermont’s rape shield statute. Id. § 3255. We affirm.

Complainant C.C. testified that she was sexually assaulted by defendant in the summer of 1989 when she was six or seven years old. C.C. lived with her family in a house next to her grandparents and defendant, her uncle. On the day of the assault, C.C.’s grandparents were caring for…