Hussen v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE POFF, with whom JUSTICE LACY and JUSTICE KEENAN

join, dissenting.

The issue before this Court turns upon the testimony of a registered nurse employed by a hospital as a “Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner”. The nurse qualified in the trial court as an expert in the examination of victims of sexual assault. Asked to explain the term *100“human sexual response”, the witness testified that “the first phase is when the person is sexually excited causing lubricant to form in the vaginal area” and that the “second part of that causes some actual structural changes” that enlarge access through…