State v. Gomes

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that defendant must object to admission of evidence at trial to preserve issue for appeal
• explaining that expert testimony may lend improper reliability to victim
• “Statements to the effect that children generally do not lie about or fabricate incidents of sexual abuse are also inadmissible because they are the equivalent of a direct comment on the child’s truthfulness.”
• “The duty to exclude objectionable testimony rests squarely with defense counsel, and without an objection, the defendant fails to preserve the issue for appeal.”
• expert’s comment on truthfulness of complaining witness may lend ‘“improper aura of special reliability’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Schutz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-12-03· cited 382×
• Hoglund v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-03-08· cited 176×
• USGen New England, Inc. v. Town of Rockingham
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2004-09-17· cited 45×
• State v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-09-11· cited 42×
• State v. LaBounty
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-04-17· cited 27×
• State v. Wigg
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-07-29· cited 24×
• State v. Cate
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-08-09· cited 23×
• State v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-03-18· cited 4×
• State v. Gomes
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-08-06· cited 3×