STATE v. MARRINGTON

(CC 99CR0566; CA A108321; SC S49100).

73 P.3d 911 (2003)

335 Or. 555

STATE of Oregon, Respondent on Review, v. Jay Dee MARRINGTON, Petitioner on Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

Decided July 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Fujita Munsey, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause for petitioner on review. With her on the briefs were David E. Groom, Acting Executive Director, and Beth Corbo, Deputy Public Defender.

Katherine H. Waldo, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent on review. With her on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General.

Before CARSON, Chief Justice, and GILLETTE, DURHAM, RIGGS, De MUNIZ, and BALMER, Justices.


De MUNIZ, J.

This criminal case requires that we decide whether an expert's testimony that delay in reporting is a predominant feature in a child's disclosure of sexual abuse is scientific evidence and therefore subject to the standards for evidentiary admission established by this court in State v. Brown, 297 Or. 404, 687 P.2d 751 (1984), and State v. O'Key, 321 Or. 285...

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