California Court of Appeal

Conviction and sentence for child molestation crimes is affirmed as the trial court was not required to allow the defense to inquire into whether a witness who was involved in the reporting of the molestation had a morbid fear of sexual matters, in terms of whether the witness, an adult female, had influenced the child to falsely report that the defendant had molested the child.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2007
• Published 09/13/2007

Judges

• NICHOLSON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Carol A. Navone, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez and Jamie A. Scheidegger, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.