United States v. Willard Dean Kirkie

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• holding that any evidentiary error was harmless when a defendant had an opportunity “to challenge the victim’s credibility and argue . . . that she made false allegations out of jealousy and anger”
• concluding that a lack of physical evidence did not demonstrate insufficient evidence because “[e]ven if the jury relied only on the testimony of the victim herself, there would be sufficient evidence to support the convictions”
• explaining that such testimony assists the jury by helping it to understand the evidence
• affirming a decision to allow testimony about the “characteristics of sexually abused children in general”
• upholding the jury’s decision to credit the sexual-abuse victim’s testimony over the defendant’s testimony notwithstanding “discrepancies in the victim’s reporting in light of her own previous statements and the testimony of other witnesses”
• affirming conviction for child sex abuse notwithstanding a lack of corroborating medical evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).