Children's Out-of-Court Statements:  Effects of Hearsay on Jurors' Decisions in Sacramento County, California, and Maricopa County, Arizona, 1994-1997
The goal of this project was to investigate the effects of
children's out-of-court hearsay statements on jurors' perceptions of
witness credibility and defendant guilt. To accomplish this goal,
three studies were conducted. The studies represented a series of
increasingly ecologically valid investigations: mock …