Jerry Lee Olesen v. Joe Class, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary

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• concluding that counsel rendered deficient performance by failing to object to psychologist’s opinion that child–victim would not have fabricated sexual-assault allegations
• holding curative jury interactions meant trial was not unfair despite counsel’s failure to object to a psychologist’s vouching of a sexual abuse victim’s statement
• holding child’s statements to physician were inadmissible if prosecution could not show child understood medical significance of being truthful
• holding curative jury interactions meant trial was not unfair despite counsel's failure to object to a psychologist's vouching of a sexual abuse victim's statement
• reversing where physician merely explained “what was going to happen” during the physical examination and no evidence was presented to show the child- victim understood revealing her abuser’s identity was important to diagnosis and treatment

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