Sanford v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that expert testimony that the victim’s score on a test measuring her ability to assess cause-effect relationship in social interaction was “zero . . . the lowest” supported the trial court’s finding that the victim lacked the requisite mental capacity
• relying on an expert’s testimony that the victim lacked the ability to understand social interactions and the victim’s mother’s testimony that the victim had not been told about the nature of the sexual act
• “[T]he fact finder is entitled to disbelieve the self-serving testimony of the accused and to conclude that the accused is lying to conceal his guilt.” (alteration in original) (quoting Marable v. Commonwealth, 27 Va. App. 505, 509-10 (1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).