State v. Thomas

Defendant appeals a judgment convicting him of four counts of sodomy in the first degree, ORS 163.405, and four counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, ORS 163.427. As to the first two assignments of error, we conclude, for different reasons, that the court did not err in limiting the testimony of defendant’s experts. We reject defendant’s third and fourth assignments of error without discussion. And, we affirm.

Defendant first assigns error to the trial court’s limitation on testimony from a professor of psychology about research studies involving children’s memories of a medical…