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Salter v. State

Citations

  • 500 So. 2d 184
  • 11 Fla. L. Weekly 1947

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that although the trial court erred in admitting a child victim’s hearsay statement, it was harmless when the child testified at trial that the appellant touched her and the child’s mother testified that the child told her immediately following the incident
  • counselor's hearsay recitation of child's statement of child abuse made several hours after incident and without showing that the child was excited held inadmissible
  • \An error in admitting testimony is harmless when substantially the same evidence was presented to the jury through the testimony of other witnesses.\
  • “[T]he reliability requirements of this statute are essential in assuring the constitutionality of this exception.”

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Judges: Smith

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