State v. Reser

How courts have described this case

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• holding expert testimony that victim exhibited some traits of post-traumatic stress disorder was admissible
• qualifying clinical specialist with training in child sexual abuse to testify to \common patterns of behavior\ resulting from abuse and that this victim had symptoms consistent with those patterns
• upholding refusal to give sympathy instruction despite 14-year-old victim and 39-year-old stepfather defendant in rape and sodomy case
• finding circumstances of case, which involved 14-year-old victim raped and sodomized by her stepfather \are not unusual in the criminal courts\
• finding a no- sympathy jury instruction unnecessary when defendant/stepfather was convicted of multiple counts of rape and sodomy against his 14-year-old stepdaughter, noting circumstances were not unusual in criminal courts
• expert testimony of characteristics exhibited by sexually abused children admissible even when defendant does not deny victim was sexually abused

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).