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- Title: State Florida V. Jack Timothy Townsend (04/21/94)
- Author : Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 21, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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We have for review Townsend v. State, 613 So.2d 534 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993)(Townsend II), which concerns the admissibility of a two-year-old's hearsay statements in this child-sexual-abuse case. This issue involves a relatively new area of the law in which the legislature and the courts are attempting to provide a means for admitting a child's hearsay testimony at trial, particularly in child abuse cases. Before the enactment of the child hearsay exception at issue in this case, section 90.803(23), Florida Statutes (1987), the hearsay testimony of a child was generally excluded in criminal trials. Today, this type of testimony is allowed only after a determination has been made that the testimony is clearly reliable. Such a determination is necessary to avoid violating a defendant's constitutional rights of confrontation and due process.
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