State v. Persinger

Decided 1982-01-19

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Miller, Chief Justice: The defendant, Dana Persinger, was convicted by a jury of third degree sexual assault in the Circuit Court of Preston County in June of 1977. His primary grounds of error are a constitutional challenge to our rape shield statute, W. Va. Code, 61-8B-12, and the voluntariness of his confession. Other errors involve evidentiary points and the sufficiency of the…

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