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Daniels v. State

Citations

  • 681 P.2d 341
  • 1984 Alas. App. LEXIS 249

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the language “’child of either’ is sufficiently broad to apply to a crime committed against a foster child.”
  • holding that the phrase is sufficiently broad to include crimes committed against foster children, in the interest of protecting children
  • noting that courts have expressed a “general policy to construe the marital privilege narrowly, particularly in cases involving child abuse”
  • explaining that the spousal- 9 privilege policy to further martial harmony “must yield to the policy of preventing 10 child abuse”
  • covering foster children as well as birth and adopted children
  • “We believe that a 14 foster child . . . , who is placed by the state and accepted by the foster parents in a 15 foster home, should be entitled to the same protection as a natural or adopted 16 child.”

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Judges: Bryner, Coats, Singleton

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