Smith v. United States

This case arose from the abduction and rape of a young woman on the morning of January 23, 1976. As she left her apartment to catch a bus to work, two men forced her into a car and drove to the Kenilworth Landfill where both of the men raped her at gunpoint and took forty cents from her purse. Subsequently, both appellants were found guilty by a jury of armed kidnaping, 1 armed rape, 2 armed robbery, 3 and carrying a pistol without a license. 4 On appeal, appellant Smith alleges that the trial court committed reversible error (1) in excluding expert testimony on the psychological principles…