123990P.pdf   02/06/2014  United States  v.  Dean Wilkens
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3990
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion 
   by denying defendant's motion to sever counts in this aggravated sex abuse 
   prosecution; district court did not abuse its discretion by allowing the 
   government to remove a video tape of a victim interview from evidence 
   after the court dismissed the count pertaining to that victim; district 
   court did not err in striking defendant's former wife's testimony after 
   she invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination; 
   district court did not err in sustaining relevancy objections to evidence 
   that the victims had been sexually abused in the past by others; no error 
   in limiting evidence that defendant had a strained relation to the 
   victims' father as it was speculative and irrelevant, and refusal to admit 
   the evidence did not implicate defendant's Confrontation Clause rights.