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141054P.pdf 03/23/2015 United States v. Jermaine Roy
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1054
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. In this prosecution for sex trafficking, the
district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to permit
defendant to show a video of the victim performing a sex act on him; the
district court did not err under Fed. R. Evid. 412(a) in refusing to
permit defendant to introduce evidence of he victim's past sexual
behavior; nor did exclusion of the evidence violate defendant's Sixth
Amendment rights; in any event, defendant's failure to file a timely
notice under Rule 412(c)(1)(B) was sufficient grounds to deny the request;
claim of Brady violation rejected as defendant had access to the relevant
information, which was in a published Arkansas Supreme Court decision, and
the government was unaware of the fact that the victim had made a false
statement to state police in an unrelated case.