State v. Bahmatov

Defendant, who was found guilty following a trial to the court on various sexual offenses, appeals. He contends that (1) the trial court erred in denying, in part, his motion to suppress inculpatory statements that he made during police interrogation; (2) the admission of a physician’s expert diagnosis, in the absence of diagnostic physical findings, that complainant had been sexually abused constituted plain error under State v. Southard, 347 Or 127, 218 P3d 104 (2009); and (3) the admission of the physician’s explanation for why she made that diagnosis was “an impermissible comment on the…