Title: State v. Cate

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

State v. Cate  (94-419); 165 Vt 404; 683 A.2d 1010

[Opinion Filed 9-Aug-1996]


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                                 No. 94-419


State of Vermont                                  Supreme Court

                                                  On Appeal from
    v.                                            District Court of Vermont,
                                                  Unit No. 3, Orleans Circuit

Kevin D. Cate                                     November Term, 1995


Walter M. Morris, J.

       Jane Woodruff, Orleans County State's Attorney, Newport, for
  plaintiff-appellee

       Robert Appel, Defender General, William A. Nelson and Joel Faller,
  Appellate Defenders, Montpelier, for defendant-appellant


PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley, Morse and Johnson, JJ.


       GIBSON, J.   Defendant Kevin Cate appeals his conviction for sexual
  assault, 13 V.S.A. § 3252(a)(1)(A).  He argues that the trial court erred
  in denying his motions for judgment of acquittal and for a new trial.  He
  also argues that a probation condition requiring him, as part of a
  sex-offender therapy program, to acknowledge culpability for his conduct
  violates his constitutional rights to free speech and against
  self-incrimination.  We vacate the probation condition requiring him to
  admit his guilt, but otherwise affirm.

       Viewed in the light most favorable to the State, State v. McGee, 163
  Vt. 162, 164-65,