Abstract
This symposium, devoted to legal issues related to children and the family, grew out of the first annual Utah Law Review Forum in October 1985. Distinguished practicing attorneys addressed a question raised by a new Utah statute: Videotaping the Testimony of an Abused Child: Necessary Protection for the Child or Unwarranted Compromise of the Defendant's Constitutional Rights? Two debaters developed the issue and their positions are represented by the initial essays printed in this issue. First, Ronald J. Yengich, a graduate of the University of Utah College of Law and practicing criminal defense attorney, argues in his essay, Child Sexual Abuse Cases, that the videotaping of child testimony denies the defendant the right of courtroom cross-examination and forecloses the constitutional right to confrontation. Richard N.W. Lambert, an Assistant United States Attorney who assisted in drafting the Utah Kidnapping and Sexual Abuse Act and consulted the authors of the Utah Videotaping of Children's Testimony Act, presents an alternative view in his essay, Victims Have Rights Too.
Recommended Citation
Review, Utah Law
(1986)
"Foreword,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1986:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1986/iss3/1