State v. Charles E. Butts’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “offer of proof' regarding the necessity of the alleged victim's testimony: For example, did the victim scream for help when she was assaulted? Did she run out of the room after she was assaulted and ask for help? Did she have her cell phone with her? Did [the] defendant prevent her from calling for help, waking up her dad, or leaving the hotel room? Did she have sperm on her person, or her clothes? Did she have marks or contusions from the force defendant allegedly used upon her? Were those marks or contusions visible to others? Did she show those marks or contusions to her dad when he said he didn't believe her? Why did she allegedly tell her dad that [the] defendant 'touched' her as opposed to telling him that [the] defendant allegedly raped her? What was her reason for waiting one year to report that a total stranger raped her, et cetera? These questions are tantamount to an assertion that the alleged victim's statements to authorities, to which detective Linzmeier testified, "were a summary and did not necessarily tell the whole story.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 363 Wis. 2d 603 - State v. Hull

2. “to a farce, in which a defendant has no ability to challenge or rebut the narrative advanced by the State's proffered double and triple hearsay testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 363 Wis. 2d 603 - State v. Hull

3. “[o]ur caselaw establishes that the Confrontation Clause does not apply to preliminary examinations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Glenn T. Zamzow