State v. Killam’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “Let me ask you in general terms from your understanding of children under the age of eight, is there any real chance that a child of that age could confuse a sex act done to him by a close family member with that of someone outside the family? “[Prosecutor:] I would find that very unlikely unless the child was say under the age of two and a half. “[Witness:] Would you say that, in general terms now, when children describe sexual acts in terms of what they physically felt as the act happened, that they are more likely to be telling the truth than not? “[Prosecutor:] When a child-yes. When a child says to me that something happened to them and it hurt, that seems pretty graphic and convincing to me that they went through that experience and did not just observe it for example.” “[Witness:]”

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