Hooker v. United States

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

Following a bench trial before the Honorable Craig Iscoe, appellant Michael Hooker was convicted of two counts of misdemeanor sexual abuse of a child, based on evidence that the trial court found proved the government’s charge that, on at least two occasions “between on or about August 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008,” he engaged in “sexually suggestive conduct”1 with a nine-year-old girl, S.T., in his apartment. In this appeal, appellant seeks reversal on the grounds that (1) the court erred in finding, on the basis of a retrospective competency examination, that…