8th Circuit decides N.D. case Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals has issued an opinion in a North Dakota case.

The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting testimony that the victim of defendant's sexual assault attempted suicide shortly after the assault; given the close temporal and physical proximity of the suicide attempt to defendant's conduct, evidence of her subsequent behavior was probative, and it was not unfairly prejudicial; defendant was not denied an opportunity to present a complete defense by the district court's limitations on his cross-examination of the victim and her mother; the evidence about their interactions came in through the permitted cross-examination and the evidence presented by other witnesses.

Read the court's opinion at: http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/22/04/203551P.pdf