Cyprian v. State

SHAHOOD, Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal and a new trial based on the trial court’s admission of testimony regarding other victim’s experiences. We agree and reverse and remand for a new trial.

Appellant was charged and tried for robbery. Crucial to the state’s case was the victim’s identification of her attacker. At trial, the detective who investigated the robbery testified that, some time after the robbery, the victim picked appellant’s photograph out of a lineup indicating that she was “a hundred percent positive.” Thereafter, the officer who wrote the initial robbery report testified that…