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231345P.pdf   02/28/2024  United States  v.  Jesse Sierra
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-1345
                          and No:  23-1368
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Western   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Melloy and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. In this sexual assault case, the government 
   did not offer expert testimony on how victims process or recollect 
   traumatic events, and defendant's proffered evidence concerning other 
   traumas the victim may have suffered did not rebut any part of the 
   government's case and was properly excluded; Brady claim rejected; the 
   district court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant Dustin 
   Sierra's motion to sever his prosecution from his brother's; evidence was 
   sufficient to support Dustin's convictions for aiding and abetting 
   kidnapping and aiding and abetting interstate domestic violence.