State v. Bressman

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• social worker's testimony that victim probably gained his sexual knowledge from sex with defendant was reversible error
• expert opinion becomes inadmissible as soon as it passes on credibility of the witness
• error to admit testimony of emergency room physician that victim had been raped, shared common characteristics of patients who reported they had been raped; physician not trained in psychiatry not qualified as expert
• error to admit testimony of physician, who was not qualified as expert in area of rape trauma syndrome, that victim’s emotional state was consistent with one of the three categories of typical rape victims and that the victim had been raped
• error to admit testimony of physician, who was not qualified as expert in area of rape trauma syndrome, that victim's emotional state was consistent with one of the three categories of typical rape victims and that the victim had been raped

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