State v. Person

The defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction, rendered after a jury trial, of the crimes of risk of injury to a child, General Statutes § 53-21,1 and sexual assault in the second degree, General Statutes § 53a-71 (a) (l).2 The defendant claims *117that the trial court erred (1) in permitting a key defense witness to assert his fifth amendment privilege in the presence of the jury, (2) in prohibiting the defendant from calling certain expert witnesses, (3) in prohibiting the defendant from questioning the victim’s best friend concerning the friend’s complaint of sexual assault against her…