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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 452 Filed 11/12/21 Page 10 of 84 quotation marks omitted). The district court rejected that argument, explaining that “case law quite commonly upholds this type of testimony against Daubert challenges,” and that the expert’s experience writing about, treating, and speaking to prostitutes was sufficiently reliable. /d. at 263- 64; see also, e.g., Letter, United States v. Kelly, No. 19 Cr. 286 (AMD) (E.D.N.Y. July 23, 2021) (Dkt. No. 134); United States v. Torres, No. 20 Cr. 608 (DLC), 2021 WL 1947503, at *6(S.D.N.Y. May 13, 2021) (permitting expert testimony on “domestic abuse and coercive control”); Feb. 25, 2020 Tr. at 24:1-40:15, United States v. Randall, 19 Cr. 131 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y.), Dkt. No. 335 (permitting expert testimony on “[t]rauma and coercive control in the context of sex trafficking, including the psychological relationship between pimps and the women prostituted by them’’); Notice and Oct. 17, 2019 Tr. at 27:1-12, United States v. Dupigny, No. 18 Cr. 528 (JMF) (S.D.N.Y.), Dkt. Nos. 180-1, 198 (permitting expert testimony on “the psychological relationship between a pimp and the woman prostituted by him” and “why prostituted women do not leave their pimp”). B. Discussion The defendant does not contest that Dr. Rocchio is a qualified expert. Nor could she: Dr. Rocchio is a leader in her field, teaching others as a professor at Brown University, and she has approximately twenty-five years of clinical experience. She is testifying in general about core concepts in her field, based on her “extensive study of the relevant data and literature and her clinical experience treating hundreds of trauma and abuse patients over the past twenty years.” DOJ-OGR-00006718