Onwan v. Commonwealth

COMBS, Judge.

This is an appeal from the conviction of appellant in Fayette Circuit Court of three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and of being a first-degree persistent felony offender.

Appellant first assigns as error that the trial court substantially prejudiced his case by allowing a gynecologist to testify as to her conclusions about what caused abrasions and tears within the victim’s hymen and vaginal area following her observation of the victim through an instrument known as a colposcope. A colposcope is nothing more than a device that allows for magnification of an observed field…