Court Opinion

ID: 9646986
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:19:28.922988+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:57:35.684361
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SPAIN, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
While I join with the majority in reversing for a new trial with regard to the admission for impeachment purposes of the twenty-two-year-old prior felony conviction and with regard to the admission of testimony regarding the “Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome,” I disagree with the holding that it was error to admit the testimony of Dr. Georgia Tye. I am of the opinion that, as a medical expert, Dr. Tye was properly permitted to testify regarding her physical examination of the victim and her opinion as to the age of scar tissue, based upon her expertise and the case history related by the patient at the time of the physical examination in the emergency room.