Commonwealth v. Fernsler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “evidence tending to show that a victim had a motive to lie or fabricate sex assault charges against an accused is relevant because of its exculpatory nature[.]”
• permitting sexual-history evidence which could demonstrate the accused had a motive to fabricate the allegations to gain favorable treatment while in a juvenile sex-offender program
• evidence that victim-son was in a juvenile sex offenders program for conduct towards his half-sister was admissible to show he fabricated sexual abuse allegations against appellant-father in order to receive more lenient treatment
• evidence that victim-son was in a juvenile sex offenders program for conduct towards his half-sister was admissible to show he fabricated sexual abuse allegations against appellant-father in order to receive more lenient treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).