172 N.C. App. 42 - State v. Delsanto’s Empirical Analysis

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28 state decisions

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1. “I was impressed by [the victim’s] sensory recollection . . . and the fact that she could tell me how she felt, how she was feeling that evening, what she felt, and what she did when she realized what was happening, what Mr. Bush’s response was when she realized he was waking up, where they were, where the other people in the family were at the time, all of that other sensory recollection was very telling and adds to the credibility of her story.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 N.C. App. 597 - State v. Hammett

2. “My diagnosis was that [the child victim] had suffered from the sexual abuse that she disclosed to me and her family.... So based on what she told me, the consistency of what she told me, what she told the parents, what she told law enforcement was just all very striking, and that I felt like she was — that she did experience that abuse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 N.C. App. 597 - State v. Hammett

3. “the State presented no evidence that defendant's possession of pornographic magazines and women's underwear played any part in the alleged offenses. Therefore, the evidence was not relevant to prove the charges against him and was merely impermissible character evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In the Matter of Db