Energy Northwest v. United States

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• holding that “an expert witness’s testimony that the behavior of an alleged child victim of sexual abuse is consistent with behavior observed in sexually abused children is admissible under the Ohio Rules of Evidence”
• noting that expert testimony concerning recantation and delayed disclosure “is permitted to counterbalance the trier of fact’s natural tendency to assess recantation and delayed disclosure as weighing against the believability and truthfulness of the witness”
• Frye inapplicable to expert’s testimony that alleged child victim’s behavior, including delayed disclosure and recantation, is consistent with behavior expert observed in victims of CSAAS
• Frye inapplicable to expert's testimony that alleged child victim's behavior, including delayed disclosure and recantation, is consistent with behavior expert observed in victims of CSAAS
• psychologist in child-sexual-abuse trial permitted to testify about behavioral characteristics of child-abuse victims, based on her own personal training and experience
• “[A]n expert may provide testimony that supports ‘the truth of the facts testified to by the child, or which assists the fact finder in assessing the child’s veracity’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).