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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument on alleged prejudicial comments included in the prosecution of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child.
On May 11, the justices granted allocatur in the case of Commonwealth v. Raboin, agreeing to consider a single question: ”Where the commonwealth is permitted a near blanket introduction of videotaped forensic examination of a child victim in a sexual assault case, during rebuttal, and thus not contemporaneously with any limited reference to said forensic examination by the defense, where numerous unfairly prejudicial statements are contained in the forensic examination, is such appropriate under the rule of completeness set for in Pa.R.E. 106?”
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