People v. Caparaz
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The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of multiple counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of fourteen and additional sexual offenses and sentencing him to ninety years to life in prison, holding that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding certain testimony, but the error was harmless.
During Defendant's trial, the court allowed the defense to present a psychologist as an expert on false confessions and suggestibility, but the court allowed the psychologist only to give general testimony without permitting the expert to offer his assessment of Defendant's particular suggestibility. Defendant challenged this ruling on appeal. The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding (1) the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the expert's defendant-specific testimony, but the error was harmless; and (2) Defendant was not entitled to relief on his remaining claims of error.
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