Bunn v. State

Nahmias, Justice.

We granted certiorari to consider whether the Court of Appeals improperly limited this Court’s holding in Division 3 of Woodard v. State, 269 Ga. 317 (496 SE2d 896) (1998). Woodard struck down, as a violation ofthe equal protection of the law, a 1995 amendment to the Child Hearsay Statute, OCGA § 24-3-16, that expanded the scope of the hearsay exception to allow the admission of out-of-court statements by all children under age 14 who witnessed sexual contact or physical abuse, as opposed to only children who were themselves the *184victims of such abuse. Having carefully…