State v. Mendoza-Sanchez

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction, entered after a combined trial with codefendant Mendoza-Lopez, his son, for two counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, ORS 163.411, and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427.1 See State v. Mendoza-Lopez , 291 Or. App. 292, 419 P.3d 761 (2018). He challenges the trial court's exclusion of expert testimony from a child psychologist about memory source confusion, which defendant claims was relevant to his theory of defense. Specifically, defendant contends that the excluded evidence was relevant to demonstrate that the…