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STATE v. DODSON

No. 88-1164.

452 N.W.2d 610 (1989)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Michael J. DODSON, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

December 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Wegman, State Public Defender, and James F. Whalen, Asst. State Public Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Sheryl A. Soich, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Michael P. Short, Lee County Atty., for appellee.

Heard by SCHLEGEL, P.J., and SACKETT and HABHAB, JJ.

SACKETT, Judge.

In this appeal by defendant-appellant Michael J. Dodson from his conviction of two counts of sexual abuse, we address issues of the victim's competency to testify and admission of testimony concerning a syndrome termed "Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome." We affirm the conviction.

The defendant was accused of sexually abusing the four-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend. The incidents...

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