People v. Fortin
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal affirmed defendant's conviction for child molestation and false imprisonment by violence, holding that defendant's Abel test results were properly excluded in the guilt phase of his criminal prosecution for want of acceptance by the relevant scientific community. The court also held that defendant's objection to the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) evidence was properly overruled once the victims' credibility was placed in issue, and its use was circumscribed by a limiting instruction. However, the court reversed defendant's sentence, remanding for the trial court to make a satisfactory record of the basis for its exercise of discretion to order consecutive sentences.
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