Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1/11/1985

Commonwealth v. Black

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487 A.2d 396
337 Pa. Super. 548
1985 Pa. Super. LEXIS 5839

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recognizing that appellant argued that evidence of the complainant’s sexual relationship with her brother was necessary to establish her motive to punish appellant for separating her from her brother
“[N]othing was as significant as [the victim]’s explicit statement that the very acts that were at the heart of the prosecution in fact may never have occurred.”
father entitled to show his thirteen-year-old daughter wanted to punish him because he terminated her sexual relationship with her brother
father entitled to show his thirteen-year-old daughter wanted to punish him because he terminated her sexual relationship with her brother
Rape Shield Law, 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3104, could not be used to prevent the defendant from introducing evidence of the victim’s prior sexual history with another person to show her bias against the defendant
evidence of daughter's sexual relationship with her brother was held relevant in establishing a motive for her to fabricate sexual abuse charges against their father where father had recently thrown the brother out of the family home

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Judges: Spaeth, Cavanaugh, Wieand, Chullo, Montemuro, Popovich, Hoffman, Cirillo

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