What is the current state of the law on the test for credibility of a psychologist's testimony in a sexual assault case?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Jeff, 204 Cal.App.3d 309, 251 Cal.Rptr. 135 (Cal. App. 1988):

"Credibility questions arise whenever the defendant denies the victim's story, explicitly or implicitly suggesting misrecollection or fabrication. If, in every such case, the jury could be informed that a doctor had diagnosed the complainant, based upon the specific facts in the case, as a child molest victim (or rape victim, or whatever), then the protection against misuse of psychologists' testimony erected by Bledsoe would be largely dismantled." ( People v. Roscoe, supra, 168 Cal.App.3d 1093, 1099, 215 Cal.Rptr. 45.)

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