Utah Supreme Court· 11/4/1985

State v. Robbins

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709 P.2d 771
1985 Utah LEXIS 950

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recognizing that children are often unable to reliably pinpoint the date an event in the past took place
affirming a conviction where the defendant failed to demonstrate that the trial court's denial of his request for a bill of particulars prejudiced his defense
stating \that when time is not a statutory element ... an information need not state when the charged offense occurred\ and concluding that \[t]ime is not an element of\ section 76-5-404.1
rejecting claims that the child complainant's confusion regarding the date of the sexual abuse rendered the testimony inherently improbable and explaining that children can more readily identify a \temporal reference point[ ]\ than a specific year or age
“We recognize that children are often not able to identify with a high degree of reliability, and sometimes not at all, when an event in the past took place.”
“We recognize that children are often not able to identify with a high degree of reliability, and sometimes not at all, when an event in the past took place.”

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Judges: Stewart, Hall, Howe, Durham, Zimmerman

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