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HUTTON v. STATE

No. 151, September Term, 1993.

339 Md. 480 (1995)

STEVEN CLARENCE HUTTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 28, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Kreg Paul Greer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

BELL, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether expert testimony that the alleged victim of child sexual abuse was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (hereinafter, PTSD)1 as a result of being sexually abused, was admissible to prove that the sexual abuse occurred and whether an expert's testimony that the victim's PTSD is "not in any way faked," was, in effect, a comment on the credibility of the victim and...

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