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Sealed Records Do Not Seal An Accuser’s Recollection
Posted by Mario on Nov 11, 2009 in Character evidence, Sealed records
In Zana v. State, prior bad acts of the defendant were admitted through the testimony of witnesses having first hand knowledge of the defendant’s acts. The court explained,
When a court orders a record sealed, “[a]ll proceedings recounted in the record are deemed never to have occurred.” NRS 179.285. This fiction permits the subject of the [...]