Barlow v. State

Carley, Justice.

Timothy Barlow was convicted of two counts of child molestation. He appealed, enumerating as error the trial court’s refusal to permit him to introduce expert evidence concerning the techniques used by a police detective in a videotaped interview of the victim. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Barlow v. State, 229 Ga. App. 745 (494 SE2d 588) (1997). We granted certiorari to consider the exclusion of the expert testimony proffered by Barlow. We conclude that such testimony involves an area of expertise beyond the ken of the average layman and, therefore, that the defendant in a…