Barker v. Norton

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “our country’s system of justice does not discourage jurors from exercising common sense and drawing upon their life’s experiences in fulfilling their role in a fury trial”
• addressing the difference between inadmissible particularized opinion testimony about a specific victim's credibility, and admissible generalized opinion testimony about general behavior of child sex abuse victims
• finding trial court did not commit plain error for failing to prohibit testimony when the record showed defendant’s counsel strategically chose not to object and allowed the evidence to be admitted
• “Missouri courts reject invitations to criticize trial courts for declining to sua sponte take action on behalf 5 of a party during witness examinations”
• no plain error for failing to prohibit testimony when the record showed defendant’s counsel strategically chose not to object 7 and allowed the evidence to be admitted

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