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STATE v. CATSAM

No. 85-522.

534 A.2d 184 (1987)

STATE of Vermont v. Peter S. CATSAM.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

August 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelley Hill, Windsor County State's Atty., and M. Patricia Zimmerman, Law Clerk, White River Junction, on the brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Charles S. Martin and Susan Dunbar, Law Clerk, Barre, on the brief, of Martin and Paolini, for defendant-appellant.

Before ALLEN, C.J., HILL, PECK and GIBSON, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.

HILL, Justice.

The defendant, Peter Catsam, appeals his conviction of sexual assault in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 3252(3). We reverse and remand for a new trial because of the improper introduction at trial of prejudicial expert testimony.

The complainant, S.S., was ten years old at the time of the alleged sexual assault. The defendant had known the complainant's mother for about three years before the alleged...

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