Opinion ID: 2633317
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The defense and conviction

Text: Ledbetter presented one witness in his defense: Dr. Lawrence Ricci, who was the head of a child abuse program in Maine. Based upon his review of L.R.'s physical exam, Dr. Ricci believed that there was not clear evidence of trauma to ... [L.R.'s] hymen. He referred to a tear in it as a notch and added that some kind of trauma could have produced it or it could be normal. A jury found Ledbetter guilty of all 26 counts charged. On March 16, 2004, the district court sentenced him to 26 terms of life in prison with the possibility of parole in 20 years. The second count was imposed to run consecutively to the first; the remaining counts were to run concurrently. Two days later, however, the district court entered a written judgment that contains errors of both fact and law and substantially differs from its oral pronouncement of Ledbetter's sentence.