United States Tenth Circuit

A state court did not violate petitioner's due process right to present a defense during his trial for sexual assault on a child, by excluding a defense expert's testimony on validity of victim statements, particularly in light of petitioner's failure to present scientific support for the expert's methods.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2003
• Published 02/19/2003

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, McWILLIAMS, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Clemmie Parker Engle, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Appellate Division, Criminal Justice Section (Ken Salazar, Attorney General, with her on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Respondents-Appellants., Howard A. Pincus, Assistant Federal Public Defender (Michael G. Katz, Federal Public Defender, with him on the brief), Denver, CO, for Petitioner-Appellee.