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A Scottdale man serving a 40-year-prison sentence for the sexual assault of a child is now claiming that Westmoreland County prosecutors coached witnesses during his trial last year.
According to an appeal filed Tuesday, Dylan Chiaramonte said the judge who presided over his rape trial improperly allowed the prosecution to elicit expert testimony based on false reports, coached testimony of sexual assault victims and erred when a forensic interviewer was allowed to tell jurors she did not observe red flags during her questioning of the victim.