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STATE v. D.G.

723 A.2d 588 (1999)

157 N.J. 112

STATE of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. D.G., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided February 9, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Sloan, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, for defendant-appellant (Ivelisse Torres, Public Defender, attorney; Mr. Sloan and Quentin D. Driskell, Designated Counsel, on the briefs).

Michael J. Williams, Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff-respondent (Peter Verniero, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).

The opinion of the court was delivered by GARIBALDI, J.

In this appeal we again confront the critical and continually recurring problem of the admissibility of a child's extrajudicial statements regarding allegations of sexual abuse. Specifically, we must determine whether under the tender years exception to the hearsay rule, N.J.R.E. 803(c)(27), the testimony of a relative regarding the child's extrajudicial statements about the sexual assault and a videotaped...

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