Legal Opinion

State v. Eldredge

Utah Supreme Court

Decided February 1, 1989No. 20558PublishedCited by 127 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:

Defendant Richard M. Eldredge appeals from his jury conviction of four counts of sodomy on a child, in violation of section 76-5-403 of the Code. He makes several claims of error relating to, inter alia, the following: admission of the child victim’s testimony and hearsay statements, exclusion of polygraph evidence and evidence of a witness’s bias, sufficiency of the evidence, and failure to grant a motion for a new trial or an arrest of judgment based on exculpatory evidence discovered after trial. We affirm.

When Eldredge’s son was two years old, Eldredge and the boy’s…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  3. Calder v. BullSupreme Court of the United States · 1798
  4. Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. Hopt v. People of Territory of UtahSupreme Court of the United States · 1884

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3Cited by127 opinions

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