Nakama v. Russell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the abuse of discretion standard does not prevent an appellate court from conducting a meaningful analysis
• holding that the abuse of discretion standard does not prevent an appellate court from conducting a meaningful analysis
• recognizing that a jury does not have to accept an expert’s opinion as conclusive even though opinion may be uneontroverted
• recognizing that “an 7 expert’s opinion is not conclusive of a fact in issue even though the opinion may be 8 uncontroverted
• holding that an expert may 16 not testify that the victim’s symptoms “were in fact caused by sexual abuse”
• holding that an expert may 5 not testify that the victim’s symptoms “were in fact caused by sexual abuse”

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