Tennessee Supreme Court· 12/5/1994

State v. Kendricks

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891 S.W.2d 597
1994 Tenn. LEXIS 352

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holding that a prior consistent statement is admissible as rehabilitative evidence only after a witness’s credibility has been attacked
recognizing that a prior consistent statement is only admissible as rehabilitative evidence after a witness’s credibility has been attacked
“Because juries were allowed—sometimes even instructed—to draw negative inferences from the [victim’s] failure to complain after an assault, . . . the [fact of the complaint doctrine] evolved as a means of counterbalancing these negative inferences.” (citation omitted)

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Judges: Birch, Anderson, Drowota, O'Brien, Reid

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