Stevens v. People

in which Chief Justice ROVIRA and Justice MULLARKEY join.

The defendant Roy Charles Stevens was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a child, § 18-3-405, 8B C.R.S. (1986). The court of appeals affirmed his conviction. We granted certiorari to review the defendant’s assertion that the trial court erred in holding that hearsay statements admitted pursuant to the child hearsay statute, § 13-25-129, 6A C.R.S. (1987), were sufficiently corroborated to be admissible by the child-victims’ use of age-appropriate sexual terminology, sexual knowledge as demonstrated by their manipulation of…