Scugoza v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that program services director of county women’s shelter qualified to give expert testimony describing cycles of spousal abuse
• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by allowing witness to testify to general domestic violence behaviors despite having no personal knowledge of defendant and victim
• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by allowing expert testimony describing domestic violence in general and typical behaviors of victims when victim’s testimony at trial was inconsistent with her previous report to police
• permitting testimony that the behavior of a hypothetical woman denying her initial accusation of abuse was consistent with the behavior of the typical battered woman
• noting distinction between direct expert testimony regarding truthfulness of witness, which would not be admissible, and expert testimony stating that witness’s behavior fell within common pattern

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