State v. Leavitt

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• affirming competency ruling for child whose testimony at competency hearing was given through social worker to whom child whispered answers
• upholding procedure in which child testified by whispering responses to social worker, who relayed the responses to the court
• finding no reversible error where the trial court judge allowed the child witness to whisper answers that were then repeated by a social worker during the child's competency hearing
• finding no reversible error where the trial court judge allowed the child witness to whisper answers that were then repeated by a social worker during the child’s competency hearing
• \counsel was not merely employing trial strategy by failing to timely object to the failure to hold [a reliability] hearing.\
• so long as child victim testifies and there are no confrontation clause problems, defendant's failure to object to admission of hearsay testimony or request a reliability hearing precludes review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Kyllo
  Washington Supreme Court· 2009-09-03· cited 695×
• State v. Swan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-06-22· cited 447×
• State v. Brett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-04-04· cited 373×
• State v. Foster
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-06-11· cited 113×
• State v. Kennealy
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2009-08-25· cited 67×
• State v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-07-16· cited 66×
• State v. Beadle
  Washington Supreme Court· 2011-11-03· cited 59×
• State v. Carlson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-07-15· cited 58×
• State v. Jones
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-05-04· cited 56×
• State v. Karpenski
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-02-12· cited 56×
• Matter of Dependency of AEP
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-05-21· cited 51×
• In re Dependency of A.E.P.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-05-21· cited 49×
• Felix v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-03-18· cited 47×
• State v. Brousseau
  Washington Supreme Court· 2011-08-18· cited 41×
• State v. Young
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-09-16· cited 38×
• State v. Woods
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-04-24· cited 32×
• State v. Early
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-06-10· cited 31×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-03-17· cited 27×
• State v. Warren
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-10-02· cited 23×
• State v. Dawkins
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-12-08· cited 22×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• United States v. Owens
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-23· cited 997×
• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-10-08· cited 629×
• State v. Ryan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-11-26· cited 344×
• State v. Parris
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-24· cited 142×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-03-09· cited 115×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-12-29· cited 27×
• State v. Leavitt
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-09-21· cited 11×
• State v. Sammons
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-05-21· cited 5×