Commonwealth v. Kirouac

How courts have described this case

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• confrontation clause violation where child complainant only reluctantly testified on direct and exhibited “total refusal to cooperate on cross-examination”
• where complainant did not testify to any incidents of penetration, videotaped descriptions of rape offered as fresh complaint evidence were prejudicial
• witness resisted answering nearly all questions asked during cross-examination
• materiality of the witness’s direct testimony must be weighed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).