State v. Brooks

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for eight counts of first-degree sexual abuse, ORS 163.427, and two counts of attempted first-degree rape, ORS 161.405; ORS 163.375, raising three assignments of error — one of which we reject without discussion. In his two remaining assignments, defendant argues that the trial court erred in (1) permitting a witness to testify about statements that defendant and another nonwitness had made before trial about the victim’s credibility and (2) admitting, in the absence of physical evidence of abuse, a physician’s expert diagnosis that the victim had…