Opinion ID: 1487492
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Heading: Alleged Impropriety in State's Closing Argument

Text: Rubino contends that the prosecutor provided the jury with the specific dates and locations of abuse under Count I when the victim's testimony failed to do so. He also contends that the prosecutor in effect testified to his own beliefs on the psychology of abused children while explaining the victims' problems with remembering exact dates. Because Rubino did not object to the State's closing argument at trial, we review only for obvious error. See State v. Varney, 560 A.2d 565, 566 (Me.1989). The trial transcript shows that the testimony of the Count I victim adequately established that she was less than 14 years of age in the period of the abuse. And taken in their total context, the prosecutor's remarks do little more than appeal to the jury's common sense and experience. There is no error here, let alone obvious error.