Commonwealth v. Gallagher

HOFFMAN, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 3123. Appellant contends that (1) the trial court erred in (a) allowing the Commonwealth to present expert testimony on the “rape trauma syndrome,” (b) excluding testimony by appellant’s expert witness, (c) allowing Dominic Ragno to testify, and (d) permitting the jury to take two mugshots of *432appellant into the jury deliberation room; (2) the trial court lacked jurisdiction to try him; (3) he was denied the right to a non-jury trial; (4) the lower court erred in denying…