Court Opinion

ID: 9633045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:32:23.785256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:03:35.658913
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LANE, Judge,
specially concurring:
I do not disagree with the majority when it subjects the error in admitting the tape to a harmless error analysis. However, I do not think it necessary.
In my dissent to Burke v. State, 820 P.2d 1344 (Okl.Cr.1991) I expressed my view that 22 O.S.Supp.1986, § 752 did not violate the Confrontation Clause of either the state or federal constitutions, and that subject to the limitations of the evidence code, the videotaped statement of a child victim may be admissible. I find nothing in the tape or its use that would make it inadmissible under the evidence code, and therefore I vote to affirm the conviction without using the “harmless error” analysis.