MATTER OF MARQUIS M.


1 A.D.3d 515 (2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 239

In the Matter of MARQUIS M., a Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

November 17, 2003.


Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The trial court providently exercised its discretion in allowing the eight-year-old complainant to testify as a sworn witness, as she understood the difference between truth and falsity, the legal and moral consequences of lying, and the importance of telling the truth at the proceeding (see Matter of James B., 262 A.D.2d 480 [1999]; Matter...

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