DISCLAIMER: Any unofficial case summaries below are prepared by the clerk's office
as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.
203551P.pdf 04/19/2022 United States v. Paul Cavanaugh
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-3551
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Loken, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. 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.