MATTER OF PAULETTE C.


34 A.D.3d 395 (2006)

828 N.Y.S.2d 3

In the Matter of PAULETTE C., a Person Alleged to be a Juvenile Delinquent, Appellant.

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

Decided November 30, 2006.


The court's finding was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the court's determinations concerning credibility.

The court properly permitted the seven-year-old victim to give sworn testimony since her voir dire responses, which were generally detailed and articulate, established that she sufficiently understood the difference between truth and falsity, the nature of a promise to tell...

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