Questão jurídica principal
Whether an expert opinion on the complainant's credibility and statement reliability had to be ordered
Decisão extraída
No. Assessing statement credibility is primarily for the trial court; no special circumstances required expert evidence here.
Fundamentação extraída
The divergences in witness accounts did not justify an expert, and the appellate court had carefully compared and weighed the statements. Alleged drug use and a supposed projection of past trauma were either unsupported or new on appeal.