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- Assessing children's competency
to Take the Oath in Court
- Judges virtually
never found children
incompetent to testify
- Attorneys rarely asked
hypothetical Q's in a
way found to facilitate
performance.
- Defence attorneys used a
higher proportion of more
difficult Q types than
prosecutors
- Judges virtually
never found children
incompetent to testify
- Examined children's accuracy in response
to T/L competency questions
- Participants
- 164 from criminal
child sex abuse
cases over 5 years
- 154 quoted in U.S state
and federal appelate
cases over 35 yrs.
- 164 from criminal
child sex abuse
cases over 5 years
- Results
- T/L competency is
underestimated by
courtroom Q'ing
- Supports doubts about the
utility of the competency
requirements
- Supports doubts about the
utility of the competency
requirements
- T/L competency is
underestimated by
courtroom Q'ing
- Children exhibited
variability in performance
based on question type
- Definition questions -
meaning of T&L hardest
- Errors in response to
'Do you know' Q's
- Q's about consequences
of lying harder than Q's
evaluating morality or lying.
- High rates of error to
Q's about whether they
had ever told a lie.
- Definition questions -
meaning of T&L hardest
- Errors in response to
'Do you know' Q's
- Participants
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