CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Sanity & Mental Processes
............Rape Trauma Syndrome
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Opinion of rape trauma syndrome is inadmissible to prove person was raped.

Judge stating he did not see evidence consistent with what he would expect after a forcible rape did not establish a "probability of actual bias on the part of the judge"; rape trauma syndrome evidence recognized.

Admission of rape expert's testimony that victim's actions reasonable constituted reversible error.

Expert's testimony that rape V's resistance sufficient to reasonably manifest refusal to D improper; irrelevant to issue of D's bona fide belief.

Rape trauma expert's testimony explaining V's delay in reporting rape and general description of characteristics of rapists properly admitted.