The opinion of the Court was delivered by GARIBALDI, J. The fresh-complaint rule allows witnesses in a criminal trial to testify to a victim’s complaint of sexual assault. The rule serves the limited purpose of negating the inference that the alleged victim’s failure to have confided in anyone was incon <span ="1" class="star-pagination"…
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