Commonwealth v. Tufts

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• upholding a statute authorizing use of videotaped testimony of child victims
• videotaped testimony where all parties including defendant and witnesses were seated around conference table was permissible where defendant could see witnesses by bending slightly
• where defendant could have seen child witness by bending slightly, there was no violation of confrontation rights
• videotape did not show the defendants, leading us to remark that “[i]t would have been better if jurors could have observed the reactions of the defendants to the child witness’s testimony during the videotaping”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).