http://www.indianalawjournal.org en-us N/A admin@indianalawjournal.org Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:11:19 EST 20 http://www.indianalawjournal.org/articles/36/1/Comments-on-Child-Abuse-Litigation-in-a-aTestimoniala-World-The-Intersection-of-Competency-Hearsay-and-Confrontation/Page1.html In Comments on Child Abuse Litigation in a "Testimonial" World: The Intersection of Competency, Hearsay, and Confrontation, Raeder summarizes the challenges creates by child witnesses and critiques the historical approach, noting that "[i]t should come as no surprise that eighteenth-century values would silence the voices of children in the twenty-first-century courtroom." She argues that the Supreme Court's rigid and categorical testimonial approach hampers both the accused (who seemingly has no remaining constitutional challenge for nontestimonial statements) and the prosecution (which is sometimes unable to produce a child witness and must therefore forfeit use of a child's testimonial statement). ]]> no@spam.com (Myrna S. Raeder) Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:04:05 EDT http://www.indianalawjournal.org/articles/36/1/Comments-on-Child-Abuse-Litigation-in-a-aTestimoniala-World-The-Intersection-of-Competency-Hearsay-and-Confrontation/Page1.html