State v. Volynets-Vasylchenko

Defendant was convicted of various sexual offenses involving a child at a home daycare operation. On appeal, defendant advances eight assignments of error, all of which relate to the trial court’s admission of the portions of a doctor’s testimony in which she read the treatment recommendations of the nurse who evaluated the child at an abuse assessment center. At trial, defendant objected to the admission of the testimony on hearsay grounds; on appeal, he contends that the testimony was not only inadmissible as hearsay, but also that it violated his state constitutional right to confront…