Abstract
Professor Montoya argues that concern for the child witness is appropriate, but that the legislative emphasis on trial reform has been misplaced. She argues that the social science literature and experience indicate instead that legislatures should focus on the pretrial experience of child witnesses. Accordingly, she recommends regulation of the pretrial interrogation of child witnesses to protect both the children and the criminal process from abusive interviewing procedures. Her recommendations, which include both proposals to videotape child witness interviews and for limited hearsay reform, aspire to give children a voice without compromising the adversarial nature of criminal proceedings.
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35 Ariz. L. Rev. 927 (1993)
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