State v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “in response to the doctor's specific inquiry about trauma or abuse. RP at 272. Though no doubt stressful, the examination did not recreate the stress of the sexual abuse sufficiently to cause B.K. to make any spontaneous exclamations. To the contrary, the boy continued for several hours to deny that any abuse had occurred. [2] The Court of Appeals found an exciting event by combining the examination with family members' subsequent”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Owens

2. “and began to scream. RP at 79-80. [1] The screams were not words, and he did not say who molested him. This conversation occurred more than seven hours after the initial medical examination. B.K.'s grandmother testified that B.K. was scared, shaking, and crying when he and Elizabeth arrived at her home that evening. Over defense objection, the grandmother also testified that B.K. told her he had been molested, and later said”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Owens

3. “rather than by the subsequent questioning. State v. Rivas, 49 Wn.App. 677, 685 , 746 P.2d 312 (1987). Asking a victim what happened is different from the extended questioning B.K. faced before he said he had been molested and identified Owens as his assailant. The reason excited utterances are sufficiently reliable to warrant a hearsay exception is that such utterances are”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Owens