Rivet v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2000
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kentucky v. Stincer · 524 So. 2d 396 - Lloyd v. State · 526 So. 2d 752 - Griffin v. State · State v. Williams · 400 So. 2d 471 - Williams v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“At common law, a person under fourteen years of age was not considered a competent witness in any controverted matter.... That rule has been abandoned in this state, and the prime test of testimonial competence of an infant witness is his or her intelligence, rather than his or her age, and, in addition, whether the child possesses a sense of obligation to tell the truth.... It is the established law of this state that if an infant witness has sufficient intelligence to receive a just impression of the facts about which he or she is to testify and has sufficient capacity to relate them correctly, and appreciates the need to tell the truth, the infant should be permitted to testify.... It is within the discretion of the trial judge to decide whether an infant of tender years has sufficient mental capacity and sense of moral obligation to be competent as a witness, [citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowman v. State
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