Dunn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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1. “At a later time, the two victims testified in person about the same matters, in similar detail.... [[Image here]] In no manner can they (the interviews) either be considered unpersuasive or brief. However, the video recordings of those interviews, as well as the commentary by the interviewer, are in all relevant respects the same as the eventual testimony of the victims at trial. The girls testified in person concerning the numerous sexual assaults they had experienced by Dunn’s actions. As they did in the video interview, the girls testified concerning Dunn’s touching their genital areas with his hands and penis, as well as being forced to engage in oral sex with him. The victims’ live testimony consumes thirty-seven pages of the record, while the cross-examination continued for another twenty-four pages. The videotapes total an hour in length, and the interviewer’s commentary (in which the videotapes were not transcribed) extends for another twenty-eight pages. The State made no specific reference that could be attributed solely to the videotapes or the interviewer’s testimony during closing argument.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Land v. State