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WOODARD v. STATE

No. S97A1867.

496 S.E.2d 896 (1998)

269 Ga. 317

WOODARD v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis Terry Blackmon, Thomason & Blackmon, P.C., Carrollton, for Jerry Woodard.

Anne Cobb Allen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Carrollton, David S. McLaughlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Atlanta, for the State.

John T. Morgan, III, Dist. Atty., Robert M. Coker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Decatur, for amicus appellee.

SEARS, Justice.

Appellant Jerry Woodard appeals his conviction for child molestation, arguing that the trial court erred by admitting into evidence certain hearsay statements made out-of-court by a six-year-old witness to the crime. At issue is the validity of the 1995 amendment to the Child Hearsay Statute.1 The amendment allows hearsay declarations made by a child under the age of fourteen who witnessed an act of sexual or physical abuse...

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