Case ID: or-app_242/html/0070-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Submitted February 4,
    reversed and remanded April 6, 2011
    STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JIMMY RAY STRINGHAM, Defendant-Appellant.
    
    Malheur County Circuit Court
    08121877C; A143575
    263 P3d 1016
    Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender, and Ryan T. O’Connor, Senior Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.
    John R. Kroger, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Matthew J. Lysne, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
    Before Schuman, Presiding Judge, and Wollheim, Judge, and Nakamoto, Judge.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Defendant was convicted of first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in admitting an expert’s diagnosis that the victim was sexually abused. The state concedes that the trial court erred in admitting the expert’s diagnosis over defendant’s objection, because the diagnosis was based purely on the victim’s credibility and therefore amounted to impermissible vouching. State v. Lupoli, 348 Or 346, 361-62, 234 P3d 117 (2010); State v. Bainbridge, 238 Or App 56, 59, 241 P3d 1186 (2010). We agree with the state’s concession. Accordingly, we reverse defendant’s convictions and remand for a new trial.

Reversed and remanded. 
      
       Defendant also argues that the court erred in instructing the jury. Given our disposition, we need not reach those assignments of error.