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PEOPLE v. BLEDSOE

Docket No. Crim. 23106.

36 Cal.3d 236 (1984)

681 P.2d 291

203 Cal. Rptr. 450

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM McKEE BLEDSOE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael R. Collins, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, and Lisa Short, Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, Michael D. Wellington, Patricia D. Benke and Louis R. Hanoian, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Robin B. Johansen, Kathleen J. Purcell, Joseph Remcho and Remcho, Johansen & Purcell as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KAUS, J.

Defendant William McKee Bledsoe appeals from a conviction of forcible rape. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (2).) The principal issue on appeal is the propriety of the trial court's admission of expert testimony by a rape counselor that, after the incident in question, the alleged victim suffered from "rape trauma syndrome." As we explain, although in a rape prosecution expert testimony on the after effects of rape...

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