MARTIN, Justice.
The question dispositive of this appeal is whether the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to pose a question to an expert in clinical psychology regarding whether the victim had a mental condition which would cause her to fabricate a story about the sexual assault. Concluding that it so erred, we order a new trial.
At trial the state's evidence tended to show that on 5 February 1983 thirteen-year-old Victoria Ann Purser (Vickie...
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