Supreme Court of Minnesota· 12/21/1984

State v. Myers

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359 N.W.2d 604
1984 Minn. LEXIS 1554

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holding that expert testimony into “puzzling aspects of the child’s conduct and demeanor which the jury could not otherwise bring to its evaluation” of a child-victim of criminal sexual conduct was helpful to the jury
finding that victim’s testimony was unnecessarily but effectively corroborated by her general, consistent reports to others
noting that issues concerning reliability of an expert’s testimony “goes not to the admissibility of the testimony but to its relative weight.”
noting that the common experience of the jury may represent a less than adequate foundation for assessing the credibility of a young child who complains of sexual abuse
allowing expert testimony explaining \puzzling aspects of the child's conduct and demeanor which the jury could not otherwise bring to its evaluation of [the victim's] credibility\
finding sufficient evidence to support a conviction for second-degree criminal sexual conduct where the victim stated that the defendant “did things to her like he did to her mother,” touched her on her “chest” and between her legs

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Judges: Coyne

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