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PEOPLE v. PIEDRA

2010-01677.

87 A.D.3d 706 (2011)

928 N.Y.S.2d 752

2011 NY Slip Op 6357

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOHNNY PIEDRA, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 23, 2011.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court did not err in permitting the prosecution to call an expert witness, a psychologist, to testify about, inter alia, intra-family rape trauma syndrome. The testimony was properly admitted "to explain behavior of ... victim[s] that might appear unusual or that jurors may not be expected to understand" (People v Carroll, 95 N.Y.2d 375

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