State v. Williams

Defendant, who was convicted of multiple counts of first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree sexual penetration of a 14-year-old, appeals, raising multiple assignments of error. Among them, he raises the unpreserved contention that the trial court erred in allowing a CARES witness to testify in a manner that supported the credibility of the victim. The CARES witness, a nurse practitioner, did not testify as to a diagnosis. The testimony in question concerned the witness’s training and experience in evaluating children who were intoxicated at the time of the alleged abuse. The witness also…