How has the prosecution and defense counsel treated the evidence in the trial of a defendant who was diagnosed as having a history of sexual abuse as a result of his own sexual abuse?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Nguyen, 160 Cal.Rptr.3d 868 (Cal. App. 2013):
Additionally, at trial, defense counsel thoroughly cross-examined the prosecution experts and presented a defense expert who disagreed with the pedophilia diagnosis of the other experts who had evaluated defendant. (See People v. Fisher, supra, 172 Cal.App.4th at p. 1014, 91 Cal.Rptr.3d 609.) The undisputed evidence was that defendant refused to participate in treatment despite the many years he has been committed.3
[160 Cal.Rptr.3d 875]
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