State v. Aaron L.’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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1. “[The Father's Counsel]: [T]he therapist thinks it would be very detrimental to the children to have to come in here and testify. And I think that's the only other alternative, quite frankly, is to put them in here on the [witness] stand or to have a hearing in Your Honor's chambers where you can question the children and, if you find it's necessary, we could submit written questions that Your Honor could ask the children.... "The Court: Well, these are children who—Tayler is twelve? Is that right? And Nicholas is ten?.... I cannot believe that it would be in the best interests of the children to subject them to this contested hearing and cross-examination, and put them squarely in the middle between [the respondent] and their father. I think that I would not be serving their best interests.... I'm going to allow the children's statements to be for the truth of the matter asserted under the residual exception to the hearsay rule, that there is a reasonable necessity for the admission of their statement. And it's supported by the... guarantees of reliability and trustworthiness. So, I'm going to allow it in over your objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 111 Conn. App. 28 - In Re Tayler F.

2. “A statement that is not admissible under any of the foregoing exceptions is admissible if the court determines that (1) there is a reasonable necessity for the admission of the statement, and (2) the statement is supported by equivalent guarantees of trustworthiness and reliability that are essential to other evidence admitted under traditional exceptions to the hearsay rule.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 111 Conn. App. 28 - In Re Tayler F.