Meadows v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Sanborn v. Commonwealth · Stringer v. Commonwealth · Fugate v. Commonwealth · Houston v. Commonwealth
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“After spending some time with Jennifer and Corey McDonald and Meadows in the McDonalds’s home, T.H. [the victim] decided to spend the night there. She had come to the McDonalds’ home with Meadows, who is also Jennifer’s brother, after meeting him in a bar a few hours earlier. Meadows also was staying with the McDonalds. T.H. borrowed pajamas from Jennifer and went to sleep alone in the bedroom to which Jennifer had taken her. At this point, the accounts of T.H. and Meadows, both of whom testified at trial, diverge. According to T.H., she did not know that the bedroom Jennifer escorted her to was also the same bedroom where Meadows planned to sleep. She testified that she woke up to find that Meadows had removed her pajama bottoms and was on top of her. He was penetrating her vagina with his penis and touching her breast. She resisted, struggling and kicking. He then switched to performing oral sex on her. After more resistance by T.H., Meadows pinned her arms, grabbed her chin, and forced his penis into her mouth. Later, he again attempted sexual intercourse. T.H. asserted that Meadows forced all of these sexual acts upon her. He pinned her down and physically restrained her. She struggled and kicked and bit Meadows at least once. Meadows repeatedly hit her in the head, choked her, and held or dragged her by her hair. He threatened to rape her anally if she were not cooperative. He once held a pillow over her head and, on multiple occasions, threatened to kill her by breaking”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Meadows ... objected to the trial court’s allowing Dr. Russell Compton to relate T.H.’s account of the sexual assault and the events leading up to it and to give his expert opinion that T.H.’s injuries were consistent with this account. Dr. Compton examined T.H. when she came in to the emergency room of University Hospital at approximately 2 p.m. on March 4, 2002, alleging that she has been sexually assaulted earlier. Dr. Compton testified that he first talked with T.H. to establish a rapport; then performed an external examination; and, finally, performed a sexual assault examination. He testified that T.H. had bruises in the following locations: over her left eyebrow and eyelid; left shoulder/chest area; right middle arm; left upper arm; right inner thigh; left outer thigh; and neck. Her neck had both linear bruises on one side and smaller bruises caused by significant pressure. She also had multiple abrasions on her right forearm and linear abrasions radiating out from her vagina. Dr. Compton also delivered an uninterrupted monologue lasting almost three-and-a-half minutes recounting everything that T.H. told him about the sexual assault and the events leading up to it. KRE 803(4) sets forth a hearsay exception for “[sjtatements made for purposes of medical treatment or diagnosis and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to t”
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