State v. Zeh

The narrow issue presented in this appeal is whether, in the interests of providing a fair trial in a criminal proceeding, a victim-witness must submit to a pre-trial, extra-judicial, psychological or psychiatric examination conducted at the request of the defendant when the results of such examination are reasonably necessary to contest expert testimony presented by the state, applicable to an essential element of the crime charged. Although we must answer such query in the negative, we do so conditionally.

*102The prosecutor argues that the trial court properly denied the motion to require the…