Advocates of child victims said a proposed constitutional amendment allowing for remote testimony for children and people with certain disabilities could help young victims from being retraumatized in ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is calling for a constitutional amendment to ensure that child victims of crime do not have to testify inside a courtroom alongside their alleged abusers.In June, the ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is proposing a constitutional amendment to give judges authority to allow children to provide closed circuit testimony against an alleged abuser. It’s a response to a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations such as the Innocence Project suggest it was a key piece of information in as many as 75% of ...

A Macomb County judge denied an accused murderer’s request to prohibit his children’s testimony against him at his trial for the shooting death of his wife. Circuit Judge Julie Gatti made that and ...

RICHMOND, VA — Where credible evidence in the record supported the court’s finding that it was not in a minor’s best interest to testify in open court, based upon her mental and emotional fragility, ...

BRAINERD — Doctors and teachers were called to testify Wednesday, May 14, as the trial continued against a 34-year-old Crosslake woman, Jorden Nicole Borders, accused of torturing her three children.

The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a child welfare worker's testimony during a temporary custody hearing, even if it was false, cannot be the basis for a civil lawsuit under ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, flanked by advocates and law enforcement personnel, announced on Dec. 12, 2024, her support for a constitutional amendment that would allow children to testify ...