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

• 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

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...