Court Opinion

ID: 9560577
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:51:39.412117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:01.248137
License: Public Domain

*428MILLER, Justice,
dissenting:
My dissent goes to the in-court testimony of the victim’s mother who recited what her daughter had told her about being sexually abused by the defendant. This conversation occurred some three weeks after the incident. The majority holds these statements to be admissible relying on State v. Edward Charles L., 183 W.Va. 641, 398 S.E.2d 123 (1990). In Part V of my dissent to that case, I set out at length why I believe such statements are not admissible. Simply put, the statements are hearsay and cannot be placed under any exception to the hearsay rule.