Foster v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• Child Hearsay Statute applies to child whose chronological age, not mental age, was under 14 years at time of statement
• Child Hearsay Statute limited to statements made hy a child under the chronological age of 14 at the time of the alleged act
• Child Hearsay Statute limited to statements made by a child under the chronological age of 14 at the time of the alleged act
• witness testimony about statements made by the 15-year-old molestation victim was admissible under Cuzzort
• “[i]t is clear from the plain language of OCGA § 24-3-16 that the legislature intended to limit [an] exception to the hearsay rule to statements made by a child who was under the chronological age of 14 at the time of the alleged act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Moak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-28· cited 27×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-12-04· cited 25×
• McGarity v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 23×
• Condra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-20· cited 20×
• Jowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-09-05· cited 13×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05· cited 13×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 10×
• Slade v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-31· cited 10×
• Cobb v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-04-22· cited 10×
• Griffis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-12· cited 9×
• Rattansay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-28· cited 7×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-06· cited 6×
• McEntyre v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 3×
• Gore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-09-05· cited 3×
• Jorris Nemoy Alford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-05

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gibbons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-02-03· cited 353×
• Cuzzort v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-01· cited 181×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-05· cited 46×
• Greer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-17· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-05· cited 16×
• Wimpey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-25· cited 11×
• Couch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-01-30· cited 8×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-10-12· cited 4×