COMMONWEALTH v. QUINN

No. SJC-11554.

469 Mass. 641 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. KEVIN QUINN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

September 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric S. Brandt , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Catherine Langevin Semel , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


GANTS, J.

This case requires us to examine the line that separates permissible expert testimony regarding the behavioral characteristics of sexually abused children from impermissible expert testimony that implicitly vouches for the credibility of the victim witness. Because we conclude that the prosecutor in this case, over objection, elicited expert testimony during cross-examination of the victim's therapist that crossed...

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