JACKSON, Justice.
Defendant was convicted of second-degree sexual offense and crime against nature, based upon the victim's age and inability to consent due to a mental disability. In this appeal we consider whether expert testimony is always necessary to establish whether a victim in such a case had the requisite mental capacity to consent. Because we hold that expert testimony is not required as articulated by the Court of Appeals, and that the State presented sufficient...
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