Montana Supreme Court· 7/10/1984

State v. Liddell

Citations

685 P.2d 918
211 Mont. 180
42 A.L.R. 4th 865
1984 Mont. LEXIS 973

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testimony of doctor, psychiatric nurse, and psychological counselor that victim had symptoms of rape trauma syndrome held admissible
Although rape trauma syndrome is a relatively new psychiatric development “the presence of rape trauma syndrome is detectable and reliable as evidence that a forcible assault did take place.”
court has no authority to compel a witness to sit for a psychiatric examination
on issue of consent, expert’s testimony that rape caused PTSD admissible
rape trauma syndrome evidence on the issue of consent held admissible
“Psychiatric testimony [regarding PTSS and RTS] is admissible to aid a jury in determining whether there was consent to engage in a sexual act which all parties agree occurred. It remains up to the jury to determine whether the evidence is credible.”

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Judges: Haswell, Sheehy, Morrison, Shea, Harrison, Weber, Gulbrandson

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