Supreme Court of Kansas· 7/16/1982

State v. Marks

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647 P.2d 1292
231 Kan. 645
1982 Kan. LEXIS 308

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holding that expert psychiatric testimony on \rape trauma syndrome\ is relevant and admissible where the defense is consent, iterating that the Frye standard is applicable to testimony regarding a psychiatric diagnosis such as \rape trauma syndrome\
concluding in prosecution for rape in which defendant raised defense of consent, psychiatrist’s testimony that twenty-one year old victim had been suffering from rape trauma was relevant
holding psychiatric diagnosis of rape trauma syndrome admissible
post-traumatic stress disorder testimony “merely offered as any other evidence, with the expert subject to cross-examination and the jury left to determine its weight”
court holds rape trauma syndrome testimony on the issue of consent admissible and finds that it provides detectable, reliable evidence of forceable assault
rape trauma syndrome is result of a sexual assault and is both de tectable and reliable; that an assault took place is relevant to issue of consent

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