LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A Shiawassee County man will proceed to serve 25 to 75 years in jail for sexually assaulting his 9-year-old daughter, regardless of a discovering by the Michigan Courtroom of Appeals that an skilled “impermissibly vouched” for the truthfulness of the kid sufferer.
Tylor Robert Sattler-VanWagoner, 32, was convicted of 1 rely of Felony Sexual Conduct 1st Diploma after a two jury trial in Shiawassee Circuit Courtroom in June 2021. Sattler-VanWagoner was accused of performing oral intercourse on his organic daughter.
Tylor Robert Sattler-VanWagoner (Courtesy Michigan Division of Corrections)
He appealed his conviction, arguing partly that testimony offered by Holly Rosen of MSU Protected Place improperly knowledgeable the jury that the sufferer might be believed.
Throughout her testimony, Rosen testified that the fabrication of childhood sexual abuse was “statistically very rare in these types of cases.”
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The Michigan Courtroom of Appeals Courtroom dominated this assertion was improper as “vouching” for the truthfulness of a sufferer’s assertion. Vouching has been decreed as improper by the Michigan Supreme Courtroom.
Regardless of that discovering, the Courtroom wrote, “Looking at the body of evidence without this comment, we are not convinced that the result would have been different.” The court docket then affirmed his conviction. That ruling was signed by Appeals Courtroom Decide Noah B. Hood and Stephen L. Borrello.
In a concurrence revealed within the case by Appeals Courtroom Decide Colleen A. O’Brien wrote she agreed with the opposite two decide’s assessments, however wrote individually to make clear a authorized level within the ruling.
The opinion was revealed. When an opinion of the Michigan Courtroom of Appeals is revealed, it means it turns into prevailing priority within the courts until or if the Michigan Supreme Courtroom overrules the choice.
