State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[I]n addition to the four witnesses to whose testimony Morris objected, the children, the father, the stepmother, Kroeker, and another police officer testified to the same or similar instances when the children had made prior statements that were consistent with their in-court testimony. We recognize that the procedure was followed by Morris’ counsel in an attempt to create error under the Tlamka holding, the only course open to him at the time. However, this tactic had the effect of letting into evidence many prior consistent statements that would have been excluded under Tome , and thus the testimony of the four witnesses to which Morris did object was cumulative and could not have prejudiced Morris.”

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