Corvin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a “victim’s failure to immediately report the incident did not render his testimony inherently incredible as a matter of law”
• holding that the victim’s delay in reporting did not render his testimony inherently incredible but was instead a factor for the jury to consider
• holding that the explanation given by the juvenile victim for his fourteen-month delay in reporting a sexual assault was “acceptable” under the circumstances of the case
• concluding that juvenile victim’s delay of 14 months “did not render his testimony inherently incredible” where his “youth, fright and embarrassment certainly provided the jury with an acceptable explanation for his behavior in these circumstances”
• finding that “[t]he victim’s youth, fright and embarrassment certainly provided the jury with an acceptable explanation for his behavior in these circumstances”
• holding the “victim’s youth, fright and embarrassment” provided the jury with “an acceptable explanation” for his delayed reporting of sexual abuse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).