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<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 21:20, August 18, 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/S059928.pdf State v. Sarich], __ Or __ (2012).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/S059928.pdf State v. Sarich], __ Or __ (2012).</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{wl-publish: 2012-11-01 13:55:18 -0700 | etobias }}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{wl-publish: 2012-11-01 13:55:18 -0700 | etobias }}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{wl-publish: 2012-11-01 13:55:18 -0700 | abassos }}</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Importing text file</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Witness Competency Requires Sufficient Ability to Communicate Perceptions'''<br /> <br /> For a witness to be competent, he must have sufficient ability to perceive, recollect and communicate such that his testimony will be worthwhile. Here, the state wanted to introduce the testimony of defendant's autistic son, Z. The accommodations necessary for Z to testify &quot;would effectively exclude most questions involving intangible actions, past events, persons and objects not present at trial, distances, times, dates, and locations.&quot; Thus, his severely limited ability to communicate his perceptions renders him incompetent to testify.<br /> <br /> A video in which Z allegedly leads investigators in a car to the scene of the crime was properly excluded:<br /> <br /> * Its probative value depends upon the jury accepting a number of assumptions and inferences,<br /> * It contains a number of suggestive and leading questions by the investigators, and<br /> * It would mislead the jury because it would likely be given inordinate attention at trial.<br /> <br /> [http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/S059928.pdf State v. Sarich], __ Or __ (2012).<br /> {{wl-publish: 2012-11-01 13:55:18 -0700 | etobias }}</div>

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