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SHORTER v. U.S.

Nos. 98-CF-194, 98-CO-1937.

792 A.2d 228 (2001)

Richard A. SHORTER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 6, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven R. Kiersh for appellant.

Chrisellen R. Kolb, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, at the time the brief was filed, John R. Fisher, Mary-Patrice Brown, Julieanne Himelstein, Joan Draper, and Chrisellen R. Kolb, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and FARRELL and REID, Associate Judges.

REID, Associate Judge:

Appellant Richard A. Shorter challenges his convictions for child sexual abuse of and threat to injure T.J.1 He claims, primarily, that the trial court violated his constitutional Sixth Amendment right of confrontation by refusing his request to cross-examine T.J., or to conduct a voir dire of T.J. and her mother, about T.J.'s alleged prior allegation of sexual abuse which she later recanted. He also contends...

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