Lammers v. S.D. Game, Fish & Parks

How courts have described this case

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• testimony of doctor, psychiatric nurse, and psychological counselor that victim had symptoms of rape trauma syndrome held admissible
• Although rape trauma syndrome is a relatively new psychiatric development “the presence of rape trauma syndrome is detectable and reliable as evidence that a forcible assault did take place.”
• court has no authority to compel a witness to sit for a psychiatric examination
• on issue of consent, expert’s testimony that rape caused PTSD admissible
• rape trauma syndrome evidence on the issue of consent held admissible
• “Psychiatric testimony [regarding PTSS and RTS] is admissible to aid a jury in determining whether there was consent to engage in a sexual act which all parties agree occurred. It remains up to the jury to determine whether the evidence is credible.”

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