CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Sanity & Mental Processes
............Rape Trauma Syndrome
4 Cards On This Topic:

Opinion of rape trauma syndrome is inadmissible to prove person was raped.

Admission of rape expert's testimony that victim's actions reasonable constituted reversible error.

Expert's testimony that rape V's resistance sufficient to reasonably manifest refusal to D improper; irrelevant to issue of D's bona fide belief.

Rape trauma expert's testimony explaining V's delay in reporting rape and general description of characteristics of rapists properly admitted.