United States v. Donald Preston Rossbach, Jr.

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• holding that leading questions were permissible on direct examination of fifteen and seventeen-year-old victims hesitant to testify about sexual assault
• concluding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by permitting leading questions to victims who were “hesitant to answer questions regarding the sexual assaults”
• approving use of leading questions where fifteen- and seventeen- year-old victims were hesitant to answer questions and had been threatened
• prosecution's use of leading questions was necessary and not excessive when both witnesses were hesitant to answer questions regarding the sexual assault

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