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Panel backs bill to broaden use of closed‑circuit testimony for child witnesses
2952865 · April 9, 2025
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Summary
A committee voted to report House Bill 3338 to the full Senate with a recommendation it pass. The bill would expand the circumstances in which a child witness may testify by closed‑circuit television instead of in the courtroom with a defendant present.
A Senate committee voted to report House Bill 3338 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass.
Counsel told the committee that current West Virginia law—modeled on a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1990—permits prosecutors or guardians ad litem to petition the court to allow a child victim to testify by…
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