Kernecha Hunter v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that confusion is “inevitable” when sign language interpretation is necessary and that “[a]ny confusion arising from the use of sign language to communicate with a deaf . . . witness goes to the weight, and not the admissibility, of the evidence.”
• expert allowed to testify that an “examination revealed evidence of traumatic and force-able penetration consistent with an alleged rape”
• “Clearly, a medical expert may not testify that the defendant raped the prosecuting witness.”
• witness who was deaf and mute testified through sign language interpreter
• Where the ophthalmologist’s technician testified regarding the ophthalmologist’s medical records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).