State v. Suka

How courts have described this case

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• holding it was error to permit a counselor to accompany a 15-year-old witness at the witness stand
• rejecting the argument that a consent instruction was unnecessary since the jury had been instructed on forcible consent: “[o]nly the giving of a consent instruction will ensure that the defense of consent is not compromised[ ]”
• abuse of discretion to allow counselor of fifteen-year-old sexual abuse victim to sit next to and place her hands on the victim's shoulders while she testified
• abuse of discretion to allow counselor of fifteen-year-old sexual abuse victim to sit next to and place her hands on the victim’s shoulders while she testified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).