People v. Gaffney

QUINN, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the unpublished decision of the court of appeals in Gaffney v. People, No. 86CA0441 (Sept. 10, 1987), which reversed the conviction of the defendant, Phillip S. Gaffney, for sexual crimes and remanded the case for a new trial. The court of appeals ruled that a pediatrician’s statement that the medical history given by the child-victim was “very believable” constituted impermissible opinion testimony on the victim’s character for truthfulness in violation of CRE 608(a). We conclude that because the pediatrician’s statement could have been…