State v. Giger

Defendant appeals his conviction, in a trial to a jury, of sexual abuse in the first degree. ORS 163.425.

Defendant assigns error to the court’s exclusion of evidence under OEC 412, the so-called Rape Shield Law.1 Before trial, the state moved in limine

‘ ‘to exclude and limit any testimony, evidence, or reference to bad conduct of the victim or the victim’s mother, or the mental health of the victim’s mother * * * from being heard by the jury at any stage of the trial.”

Defendant said that he would introduce evidence of the child’s and the mother’s relationships with men who had lived with them…