033064P.pdf   06/04/2004  United States  v.  Bruce Thunder Horse
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-3064
   District of South Dakota   
   Criminal case - criminal law. In case involving abusive sexual contact 
   with a ten-year old girl, the district court did not err in allowing a 
   forensic interviewer who conducted the initial interviews with the victim 
   to testify regarding the child's descriptions of the abuse; in cases 
   involving the admissibility of a sexually abused child's hearsay statements 
   under Rule 807, the court must assess the trustworthiness and reliability of 
   the out-of-court statement in light of the circumstances at the time of the 
   declaration and the credibility of the declarant; here, several 
   circumstantial guarantees are present - proximity in time, experience of 
   the interviewer, age of the child - and the statements were admissible. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]