Godfrey v. State

How courts have described this case

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• in which the out-of-court statements consisted of “sleep talk,” which the court held to be a phenomenon requiring expert testimony to establish its reliability
• dream statement by child held admissible under a catchall exception to the hearsay rule
• while dreams are in some sense connected to waking hour’s desires and anxieties, there is no indication that dream sequences mirror actual events”
• while dreams are in some sense connected to waking hour’s desires and anxieties, there is no indication that dream sequences mirror actual events”
• sleep statements do not qualify for hearsay exception for certain statements with “sufficient indicia of reliability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gregg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-05· cited 141×
• State v. Zimmerman
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1992-04-02· cited 123×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• People v. Kidd
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-04-16· cited 81×
• State v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-07-16· cited 66×
• Sosebee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-02· cited 26×
• Diaz v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-02-18· cited 19×
• Mendoza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-07-16· cited 16×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-12-28· cited 9×
• Godfrey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-13· cited 7×
• Buttersworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-21· cited 6×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-05· cited 4×
• Stephen Clark Webb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-05-01
• Webb, Stephen Clark
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-17

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-02· cited 229×
• Momon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-08· cited 197×
• Godfrey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-19· cited 6×