The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence

The age of child sexual abuse victims and the private nature of sex crimes make it notoriously difficult for prosecutors to find sufficient admissible corroborating evidence for an effective prosecution. The Alaska courts have responded by stretching various codified and common-law hearsay rule exce...

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Main Author: Gochnour, J. J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Alaska Law Review 2010
Subjects:
child abuse
child sexual abuse
court
testimony
law
Crawford
Alaska law review
Alaska
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11212/2128
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=alr
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spelling ftncaccalio:oai:calio.dspacedirect.org:11212/2128 2023-05-15T13:08:51+02:00 The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence Gochnour, J. J. 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/11212/2128 http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=alr en_US eng Alaska Law Review Gochnour, J. J. (2010). The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence. Alaska Law Review, 27, 71-102. http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=alr http://hdl.handle.net/11212/2128 child abuse child sexual abuse court testimony law Article 2010 ftncaccalio 2022-06-15T15:25:25Z The age of child sexual abuse victims and the private nature of sex crimes make it notoriously difficult for prosecutors to find sufficient admissible corroborating evidence for an effective prosecution. The Alaska courts have responded by stretching various codified and common-law hearsay rule exceptions to accommodate child-hearsay statements. In this Note, the Author discusses the inadequacies of this approach and proposes amending the Alaska Rules of Evidence to include a consistent hearsay exception for child-hearsay in sexual abuse cases, based on the first complaint rule and compliant with the Supreme Court’s articulation of the Confrontation Clause in Crawford v. Washington and Davis v. Washington. (Author Abstract) Article in Journal/Newspaper Alaska law review Alaska CALiO (Child Abuse Library Online - National Children's Advocacy Center, NCAC) Crawford ENVELOPE(-86.467,-86.467,-77.717,-77.717)
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child sexual abuse
court
testimony
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child sexual abuse
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testimony
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Gochnour, J. J.
The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence
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description The age of child sexual abuse victims and the private nature of sex crimes make it notoriously difficult for prosecutors to find sufficient admissible corroborating evidence for an effective prosecution. The Alaska courts have responded by stretching various codified and common-law hearsay rule exceptions to accommodate child-hearsay statements. In this Note, the Author discusses the inadequacies of this approach and proposes amending the Alaska Rules of Evidence to include a consistent hearsay exception for child-hearsay in sexual abuse cases, based on the first complaint rule and compliant with the Supreme Court’s articulation of the Confrontation Clause in Crawford v. Washington and Davis v. Washington. (Author Abstract)
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http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=alr
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