7 results for 'cat:"Witnesses" AND cat:"Child Victims"'.
J. Soto finds a lower court did not err in convicting defendant of indecency with a child. Defendant raised a number of issues with his conviction, including arguing the court had improperly allowed an outcry witness to testify about one victim’s description of abuse, but even if the witness was improperly allowed under the “excited-utterance exception to the hearsay rule,” but any error was cured by defendant’s “failure to object to the
admission of other evidence on the same subject” and by “agreeing to and eliciting testimony from other witnesses at trial on the same subject.” Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Soto, Filed On: July 9, 2024, Case #: 08-23-00234-CR, Categories: Sex Offender, witnesses, child Victims
J. Landau finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant of two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child. Although the trial court should have only allowed testimony from one outcry witness and not from three, the error was harmless because the jury heard evidence about the sexual assaults from two sources other than the three outcry witnesses. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals, Judge: Landau, Filed On: June 20, 2024, Case #: 01-22-00706-CR, Categories: Sex Offender, witnesses, child Victims
J. Ortega finds that the trial court properly declined to strike testimony used to convict defendant of first-degree sodomy and sexual abuse of a child. A child forensic interviewer's testimony provided general descriptions about how children react to instances of abuse and she did not directly express her opinions on the victim's credibility. Affirmed.
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals, Judge: Ortega, Filed On: May 30, 2024, Case #: A178598, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Sex Offender, witnesses, child Victims
J. Van Cleef affirms the trial court’s defendant's conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentence of 99 years in prison. The trial court properly allowed defendant to impeach a witness - the mother of the child victim -- who had a prior conviction for receiving stolen property from more than 10 years ago. Affirmed.
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Judge: Van Cleef, Filed On: April 12, 2024, Case #: 06-23-105, Categories: witnesses, child Victims
J. Price finds that the lower court properly convicted defendant for child molestation and incest against his daughter. Defendant argues that his daughter was improperly found competent to testify and that she made hearsay statements on the record. The lower court followed all the proper procedures in allowing a child to testify on such a serious issue and showed real thought in considering what was "reasonable to expect for a 6-year-old’s memory." Affirmed.
Court: Washington Court Of Appeals, Judge: Price, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: 57808-5-II, Categories: Sex Offender, witnesses, child Victims
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J. Mitchell finds that the lower court properly denied defendant's post-conviction motion alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. It is unlikely the jury's guilty verdict would have changed had counsel objected to the state's propensity witness testimony. Further, defendant was not prejudiced by alleged hearsay testimony about defendant sexually abusing others because many of the witnesses were available at trial for cross-examination. Affirmed.
Court: Missouri Court Of Appeals, Judge: Mitchell, Filed On: November 7, 2023, Case #: WD85449, Categories: Sex Offender, witnesses, child Victims