United States v. James Shaw

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• stating that exceptional circumstances generally exist when children relate abuse details to adults
• stating that exceptional circumstances generally exist when child relates abuse details to adult
• hearsay witness's status as first person to hear child's statements only one of several factors noted
• hearsay witness’s status as first person to hear child’s statements only one of several factors noted
• “[W]hile Congress intended the residual hearsay exception to be used very rarely, and only in exceptional circumstances ... one such exceptional circumstance generally exists when a child abuse victim relates to an adult the details of the abusive events.”
• in assessing the ‘more probative’ requirement the court stressed that the out-of-court statements contained specific details as to the dates of. the incidents — details that the child sexual abuse victim could not provide at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).