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- Title
A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH OR TRIAL BY ORDEAL: WHEN PROSECUTORS CROSS-EXAMINE ADOLESCENTS HOW SHOULD COURTS RESPOND?
- Authors
Vandervort, Frank E.
- Abstract
The article explores the response of the court on how a prosecutor conducts cross-examination on adolescents. It discusses the nature and function of conducting a cross-examination as well as cites the right of a prosecutor to carry on a cross-examination. The rights of social workers and law enforcement officers to interview potential child victims are explained. A social science research indicates problems of a trial judge related to fairness in a juvenile or adult prosecution which include overestimation of legal professional of the linguistic abilities of children and youth and the trial judges' susceptibility to discredit juvenile defendants and witnesses. Also included are the author's experience which illustrates aggressive prosecutorial cross-examination techniques.
- Subjects
CROSS-examination; CHILD witnesses; CHILD victims; LEGAL status of teenagers; INTERVIEWING in law enforcement; JUSTICE in adolescence; PROSECUTORS; DECISION making in prosecution; JUDICIAL process; TRIALS (Law)
- Publication
Widener Law Review, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 2, p335
- ISSN
1933-5555
- Publication type
Article