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LaCHAPPELLE v. MORAN

No. 82-1308.

699 F.2d 560 (1983)

Francis E. LaCHAPPELLE, Petitioner, Appellant, v. John MORAN, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paula Rosin, Asst. Public Defender, Appellate Div., Providence, R.I., with whom William F. Reilly, Public Defender, Providence, R.I., was on brief, for petitioner, appellant.

Anthony F. Del Bonis, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., with whom Dennis J. Roberts, Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., was on brief, for respondent, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

In February 1978, Francis LaChappelle was tried and convicted in Rhode Island Superior Court of assault with attempt to rape. He appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, claiming that the trial judge's in camera questioning of his minor daughter, the complaining witness, violated his rights under the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution. After the Supreme Court of Rhode Island rejected these arguments...

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