Legal Opinion
State v. Swan
Washington Supreme Court
Decided June 22, 1990No. 55393-9PublishedCited by 336 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Andersen, J.—
Facts of Case
The two defendants in this child abuse case were convicted at a jury trial in the Superior Court of the State of Washington for King County. The Court of Appeals reversed in an unpublished opinion. We reverse the Court of Appeals and reinstate the judgments and sentences imposed by the trial court.
At issue here is whether there was sufficient corroborating evidence to justify the trial court allowing into evidence the hearsay statements of one of the two child victims in this statutory rape case. There is unfortunately no way at all to resolve this issue other than…
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