United States Tenth Circuit

A statement to a law enforcement officer, by an alleged victim of child sexual abuse, was admissible under the catch-all hearsay exception, based on adequate indicia of reliability, even where the alleged abuse occurred more than four years earlier, and the declarant had a possible motive to lie.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 07/18/2002

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, BALDOCK, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas B. Jameson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant., Gregory J. Fouratt, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee.