State v. B. Tollie

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that testimony about the government’s sexual assault victim interview process ordinarily should be excluded because such testimony “is unnecessary and irrelevant to the issue of the defendant’s guilt, and is extremely prejudicial”
• explaining an inference of guilt may be drawn from evidence of flight, destruction or concealment of evidence, and other similar acts
• “Repetition of the narrative tends to enhance the credibility of the complainant to the prejudice of the defendant”
• \The fact that the Commonwealth brought its resources to bear on [an] incident creates the imprimatur of official belief in the complainant\
• \Repetition of the narrative tends to enhance the credibility of the complainant to the prejudice of the defendant\
• mere fact of disclosure, even without contents or details, constitutes complaint for purposes of first complaint doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).