California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Schenberger, C069146 (Cal. App. 2017):
direct examination about another part of the same e-mails; (2) the sequence of jury instructions conferred special deference to the victim's credibility by sequencing the instruction that a sexual assault conviction may be based on the victim's testimony alone after the witness credibility instruction that explains a fact can be proved by the testimony of a single witness; and (3) the trial court violated due process by instructing the jury that victim consent does not negate duress, pursuant to People v. Soto (2011) 51 Cal.4th 229 (Soto), which postdated defendant's commission of the crimes and which he asserts was an unforeseeable expansion of criminal liability.
We affirm.2
In 2010, defendant was charged with 40 counts of molesting victim C., his biological daughter.
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