The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence

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dc.contributor.authorGochnour, J. J.
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-28T16:37:10Z
dc.date.available2015-01-28T16:37:10Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe age of child sexual abuse victims and the private nature of sex crimes make it notoriously difficult for prosecutors to find sufficient admissible corroborating evidence for an effective prosecution. The Alaska courts have responded by stretching various codified and common-law hearsay rule exceptions to accommodate child-hearsay statements. In this Note, the Author discusses the inadequacies of this approach and proposes amending the Alaska Rules of Evidence to include a consistent hearsay exception for child-hearsay in sexual abuse cases, based on the first complaint rule and compliant with the Supreme Court’s articulation of the Confrontation Clause in Crawford v. Washington and Davis v. Washington. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationGochnour, J. J. (2010). The First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidence. Alaska Law Review, 27, 71-102.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=alr
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2128
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAlaska Law Reviewen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectcourten_US
dc.subjecttestimonyen_US
dc.subjectlawen_US
dc.titleThe First Complaint: An Approach to the Admission of Child-Hearsay Statements Under the Alaska Rules of Evidenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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