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When alleged child victims talk by videotape.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) On March 10, Maryland's highest court addressed how prosecutors can get around Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), in trying to present at trial videotaped conversations between alleged child abuse victims and social workders and other government employees. The main thrust of the opinion is to reverse the trial court's refusal for the defense to call the child on cross-examination after the prosecutor played the videotape at trial subsequent to the child's live testimony, where the defense declined to cross examine the child after his live testimony, apparently as a defense effort to prevent the prosecutor from offering the videotape into evidence.  The case is Myer v. Maryland, __ Md. _ (March 10, 2008)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).