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observing that expert testimony on patterns of committing child sexual abuse and the characteristics of child molesters may bolster the complaining witnesses' credibility because "the expert's testimony could 'guide the jury to a conclusion' that the complaining witnesses were telling the truth by demonstrating that the details in their testimony matched the details in a typical child abuse case"
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SCWC-11-0000048
03-28-2013
STATE OF HAWAI'I, Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FAUSTINO TRANSFIGURACION, Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant.
Jon K. Ikenaga, for petitioner
CERTIORARI TO THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS
(CAAP-11-0000048; CR. NO. 09-1-00126K)
ORDER REJECTING APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
(By: Recktenwald, C.J., Nakayama, and McKenna, JJ., with Acoba, J.,
dissenting, with whom Pollack, J., joins)
The Application for Writ of Certiorari filed on February 11, 2013 by Petitioner/Defendant-Appellant Faustino Transfiguracion is hereby rejected.
DATED: Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 28, 2013. Jon K. Ikenaga,
for petitioner
Mark E. Recktenwald
Paula A. Nakayama
Sabrina S. McKenna