Legal Opinion
State v. Superior Court, Pima County
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided March 15, 1986No. 2 CA-SA 0328PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOWARD, Presiding Judge.
Petitioner brought this special action to challenge the trial court’s order in a child molestation case concluding that the three-year-old victim is not competent to testify as a witness and that the victim’s out-of-court statements to others are inadmissible. The real party in interest, the defendant, was charged by indictment with one count of child molestation. The court’s order followed a hearing to determine the competence of the victim, defendant’s daughter, pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-4061, and the admissibility of her out-of-court statements under A.R.S. §…
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