Legal Opinion
United States v. Richard Romero
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 1999No. 98-2358PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
This case began in the spring of 1995, when. 36-year-old Richard Romero “met” a 12-year-old boy in a “chat room” on the Internet devoted to UFOs and extraterrestrials. The case raises interesting questions about the permissible scope of expert opinion testimony in “child molester” cases. We start with the facts, which are rather bizarre, to say the least.
The boy Romero met, who we’ll call “Erich” in this opinion, lived in Mount Prospect, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Posing first as a 15-year-old boy, then as his 20-year-old brother, Romero exchanged e-mails…
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