In evidentiary terms, how does one classify a victim's reporting or recounting of a sexual attack when that report is offered at trial through the testimony of the person who heard it? Perplexingly, it may be many things, each with its own qualifying rules and each with its own evidentiary significance.
It may sometimes be a prior consistent statement, admissible only in rebuttal and only after the...
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