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LAWRENCE v. COM.

Record No. 091119.

689 S.E.2d 748 (2010)

Steven LAWRENCE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 25, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Devine (Devine, Connell, Sheldon & Flood, on briefs), for appellant.

Angela Boice Axselle, Assistant Attorney General (William C. Mims, Attorney General; James W. Hopper, Deputy Attorney General; Pamela A. Sargent, Senior Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

OPINION BY Justice S. BERNARD GOODWYN.

In this appeal we consider whether the circuit court erred in admitting expert testimony regarding the details of unadjudicated allegations of sexual misconduct the expert learned from police reports and whether expert opinion testimony dependent upon the truth of those unadjudicated allegations is admissible into evidence.

In 1990, Steven L. Lawrence (Lawrence) was convicted of, among other things, rape and sodomy and...

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