Jeremiah D. Wilkes v. State of Indiana

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• holding that the trial court erred in permitting a detective to testify at trial that in an interrogation he said that he saw no reason why the victim would lie, and the defendant too could not say why the victim would lie
• finding that, “[i]n light of the other evidence in the record, the admission of [the] vouching testimony was harmless”
• “Because the statements were cumulative of W.V.’s testimony, no fundamental error occurred from the admission of those statements.”
• “Because the Court of Appeals of Indiana | Memorandum Decision 49A04-1604-CR-785| February 14, 2017 Page 8 of 9 statements were cumulative of W.V.’s testimony, no fundamental error occurred from the admission of those statements.”
• “Under Rule 704(b), adults may not opine whether a particular child was ‘prone to exaggerate or fantasize about sexual matters [because] indirect vouching testimony is little different than testimony that the child witness is telling the truth.’”
• finding no fundamental error in admission of cumulative evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).