Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 5/26/1989

State v. Jacques

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558 A.2d 706
1989 Me. LEXIS 126

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holding that evidence of prior sexual abuse of the victims should have been admitted to show knowledge
recognizing “defendant’s constitutional right of effective cross-examination and to present a proper defense”
explaining that, in these circumstances, a defendant may probe a minor’s sexual knowledge “for the limited purposes of rebutting the jury’s natural assumption concerning a child’s sexual innocence and of protecting the defendant’s rights”
prior sexual abuse of victim admissible to rebut the inference of child's inability to describe accurately acts of sexual intercourse
“We reject, as providing insufficient protection to victims, the defendant’s proposed interpretation of ‘sexual behavior’ to apply only to a victim’s ‘volitional sexual behavior.’ ”
allegations of past sexual abuse by person other than the accused relevant to rebut inference by jury that young child so sexually naive that he could not have fabricated charges of sexual abuse

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Judges: McKusick, Roberts, Wathen, Clifford, Hornby, Collins

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