State v. Orfi

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• affirming conviction arising from young child’s severe head injury, despite defendant’s expert’s testimony of possible alternative causes, based on physicians’ testimony that child’s subdural hematoma was caused by violent shaking
• clergy privilege did not require that conversations be in nature of “confession” but simply conversation for purpose of seeking religious or spiritual advice, aid, or comfort
• clergy privilege applied although mother of defendant’s girl friend talked with clergy member and defendant together for a while after clergy member had already separately met with defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).