State v. Suka

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Adams
  California Court of Appeal· 1993-10-12· cited 51×
• State v. Lagat
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2002-02-08· cited 33×
• State v. Palabay
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1992-12-17· cited 25×
• State v. Suka
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1995-08-10· cited 25×
• People v. Patten
  California Court of Appeal· 1992-10-01· cited 23×
• State v. T.E.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-07-03· cited 23×
• People v. Johns
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-07-15· cited 18×
• State v. Rowray
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1993-09-17· cited 13×
• State v. Keomany
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2000-07-07· cited 10×
• State v. Shanks
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2002-03-13· cited 7×
• People of Guam v. Weser Wesen (aka Weser Weson aka Weson Weson)
  Supreme Court of Guam· 2022-12-30· cited 6×
• Expose v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-10-25· cited 4×
• United States v. Romey
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1991-04-11· cited 4×
• Vathis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-07-24· cited 1×
• State v. TE
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-07-03
• Kenneth L. Weston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-01-12

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. O'DANIEL
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-09-25· cited 71×
• Baxter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-04-25· cited 69×
• State v. Lira
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1988-07-14· cited 14×