A nineteen-year-old woman returns home from an evening at the beach. She tells her mother that she

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A nineteen-year-old woman returns home from an evening at the beach. She tells her mother that she has been raped and sodomized by an attacker she does not know. Some hours later, the woman identifies her attacker to her mother, and they notify the police. At trial, the prosecution seeks to admit expert testimony on rape trauma syndrome to explain the victim’s reticence in promptly identifying her attacker. The defense objects. Should the court allow expert testimony on this subject to explain the reactions of the female victim in the hours following her attack and to explain why she may initially have been unwilling to report the defendant who attacked her? Why or why not?

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Criminal Law And Procedure

ISBN: 9780495095484

6th Edition

Authors: John M Scheb, John M Scheb II

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