People v. Bethune
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bracken, J. P.
At defendant’s trial for rape and related offenses, in which the issue of identity was hotly contested, the victim identified defendant as her assailant, and also testified that she had bitten his arm during the course of the attack. Expert testimony was then adduced to the effect that defendant did, in fact, have the *264scar of a human bite mark on his arm. While the expert was unable to state, with a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, that the bite in question had been inflicted by the victim, he was allowed to testify that the scarring pattern on…
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