P. v. Foreman CA5
In June 2019, defendant Prentice Foreman was convicted by a jury of first degree murder for the January 1979 killing of Dawn Ellen Koons. He raises eight issues on appeal: (1) the trial court erred in excluding third party culpability evidence and prohibiting impeachment of the primary alternative suspect, Dawn’s ex-boyfriend; (2) the trial court erred in denying a continuance for the defense to secure the testimony of Dawn’s brother, or, alternatively, counsel was ineffective for failing to timely secure her brother’s appearance; (3) the trial court erred in admitting expert opinion testimony that (i) the killer sexually assaulted Dawn in the course of a sexually motivated homicide, and that (ii) it was not reasonable to think Dawn had sexual intercourse with one person before a different person killed her; (4) there was insufficient foundation to admit DNA evidence that showed Foreman’s sperm was found on slides containing material swabbed from Dawn’s vagina; (5) the trial
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