Jurisprudence

A rape analyst who was barred from testifying at the William Kennedy Smith trial might testify as a prosecution witness in the trial of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Prosecutors appealed a judge’s ruling barring testimony by Dean Kilpatrick, director of the Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford is expected to rule on the appeal Tuesday.

The prosecution last week submitted Kilpatrick as an expert witness on rape trauma syndrome in Tyson’s trial, which is scheduled to begin Jan. 27. Tyson is charged with rape, confinement and criminal deviate conduct in an alleged attack on a Miss Black America contestant last July in Indianapolis.

Defense attorneys objected, claiming that the prosecution had missed the court’s Nov. 15 deadline for listing expert witnesses.