State v. Morales-Pedrosa

¶ 1. Esequiel Morales-Pedrosa appeals his judgment of conviction following a jury trial and the trial court's denial of his postconviction motion seeking a new trial. All fourteen counts of the judgment relate to Morales-Pedrosa sexually assaulting his teenage daughter, B.M., on multiple occasions. Morales-Pedrosa contends his trial counsel provided him ineffective assistance by failing to (1) object on the ground of impermissible "vouching" to testimony by a State expert witness that it is "commonly understood that approximately 90 percent of reported cases are true" and (2) object to "other…