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COMMONWEALTH v. FEDERICO

425 Mass. 844 (1997)

COMMONWEALTH v. LIBERATORE LIBBY VINCENT FEDERICO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

September 4, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Cosgrove, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Maxine Sushelsky for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & MARSHALL, JJ.

MARSHALL, J.

We must decide whether the testimony of two experts on child sexual abuse impermissibly intruded on the jury's role of assessing the credibility of the child complainants. In Commonwealth v. Dockham, 405 Mass. 618 (1989), we held that expert testimony on the general behavioral characteristics of sexually abused children was properly admitted where the defendant had argued that such testimony should have...

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