Court Opinion

ID: 9763370
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:43:18.186862+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:57:09.333051
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STEPHENS, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
Respectfully, I must dissent on the issue raised by appellant concerning the admissibility of the victim’s drawing depicting his version of appellants sexual abuse.
Although the drawing was not the subject of testimony in which the social worker testified as to her conclusions regarding the occurrence or nonoccurrence of sexual abuse, it is nevertheless inadmissible. It is beyond question that the drawing constituted an out of court statement by the victim offered for the truth of the matter asserted and for this reason should have been excluded. KRE 801(a)(1), (c). Hellstrom v. Commonwealth, Ky., 825 S.W.2d 612, 615 (1992).