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Appeals panel weighs sufficiency of identification and expert testimony in Torres case
Summary
Counsel challenged the sufficiency of circumstantial identification and whether a child-disclosure expert improperly vouched for the complainant; Commonwealth argued the record supported identification and the expert's testimony was permissible scientific explanation of delayed disclosure.
The Appeals Court heard argument in docket 25P0027, Commonwealth v. Torres, where defense counsel Christopher DeMeo urged reversal on sufficiency grounds and challenged the scope of expert testimony about delayed disclosure.
DeMeo told the panel the prosecution's case was circumstantial and relied on a childhood memory of the…
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