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7.2-2 Videotaped Testimony of Child Witness
Revised to December 1, 2007
In this case you have been presented with videotaped testimony of <insert name of child>. You shall give this testimony the same weight as you would give it had (he/she) testified before you in this courtroom.
Commentary
See
General
Statutes
§
54-86g;
State
v.
Jarzbek,
204
Conn.
683,
707
(1987),
cert.
denied,
484
U.S.
1061,
108 S.
Ct.
1017,
98 L.
Ed. 2d
982
(1988).
On the
credibility
of
child
witnesses,
see
commentary
to
Credibility,
Instruction
2.4-2.