Sanchez-Rengifo v. Caraway

Ct. of Appeals denied defendant’s request for certificate of appealability with respect to Dist. Ct.’s denial of defendant’s habeas petition challenging on several grounds his conviction on charges of first and second degree child sexual abuse. Ct found that defendant had failed to raise substantial showing that his due process rights were violated, even though defendant argued that his conviction was infirm in absence of any DNA evidence to support victim’s identification of him as culprit, where Ct. held that credible testimony of one identification witness was sufficient to support said conviction. Moreover, Ct. found no Double Jeopardy Clause violation, where state legislature indicated intent to punish each act of abuse separately.