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FOWLER v. SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.

No. 04-15885.

421 F.3d 1027 (2005)

Jeff FOWLER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT; California Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 31, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Quin Denvir and Allison Claire, Office of the Federal Defender, Sacramento, CA, for petitioner-appellant, Jeff Fowler.

Bill Lockyer, Robert R. Anderson, Mary Jo Graves, John G. Mclean and George M. Hendrickson, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, Sacramento, CA, for respondent-appellee the State of California.

Before: TALLMAN, BYBEE, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

BEA, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Jeff Fowler was convicted of annoying or molesting Charla Lara in violation of California Penal Code § 647.6 following a jury trial in which he was precluded from cross-examining Lara regarding two prior incidents in which she alleged that other men had molested her. We conclude that the proffered cross-examination sufficiently bore upon Lara's reliability or credibility such that the jury might reasonably have questioned...

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