Jackson v.Norri, No. 10-2844 (8th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree sexual assault of J.W., his wife's minor granddaughter. At issue was the federal district court's grant of defendant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus where he argued that his right to present a defense was impaired in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. The court held that it was not unreasonable for the Arkansas Supreme Court to apply the Rape Shield Law by determining that evidence of J.W.'s prior sexual conduct was irrelevant to facts at issue in defendant's case. Accordingly, the court reversed and denied defendant's petition.
Court Description: Prisoner case - habeas. The district court did not err in finding Arkansas courts' application of the Arkansas Rape Shield law to bar certain testimony about the victim's sexual history was an objectively reasonable application of clearly established federal law. Judge Bye, dissenting.
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