Commonwealth v. Balodis

*570 OPINION

CAPPY, Justice.

The question before the court is whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve for appellate review an objection to the admissibility of testimony by the Commonwealth’s expert witness, which improperly bolstered the credibility of the victim. For the following reasons we find that counsel was ineffective, and that accordingly, the decision of the Superior Court must be reversed and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The instant case arose following the allegations of ten year old Jimmy Rosser that he had been sexually molested by appellant on numerous…