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This is the complete issue of Sexual Assault Report Volume 24, Number 4. Contents: Confidentiality and Contact Tracing by the Victim Rights Law Center; Accountability and Healing by LaVarr McBride; A Conversation With Michelle Trent; Worth Reading (Literature Review by Russ Immarigeon); Case Summaries by Anne E. Perry [Cases Under Sexually Violent Predator Statutes: California: Probable Cause Hearing Under Sexually Violent Predator Statute Includes Consideration of Hearsay in Evaluation Reports, Disagreeing With Earlier Precedent—Walker v. Superior Court, 51 Cal. App. 5th 682 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020); Texas: Designation as Sexually Violent Predator Proper; Admission of Evidence of Unadjudicated Offenses “Not Unfairly Prejudicial”—In re Commitment of S.D., No. 10-17-00129-CV (Tex. Ct. App. 2020); Kansas: Evidence of Uncharged Sexual Offenses Against Other Children Was Properly Admitted Under State Law Allowing Admission of Other Acts of Sexual Misconduct—State v. Satchell, 466 P.3d 459 (Kan. 2020); Missouri: Court Properly Allowed Testimony of Child Victim as Propensity Evidence in Trial for Sexual Abuse of Two Other Victims—State v. Burge, 596 S.W.3d 657 (Mo. Ct. App. 2020); Utah: Perpetrator’s Prior Bad Acts Admitted to Rebut His Innocent Explanation in Burglary and Sexual Abuse Trial Did Not Call for Reversal—State v. Argueta, 469 P.3d 938 (Utah 2020); Louisiana: Trial Court Ordered to Admit Evidence of Defendant’s Prior Sexual Battery, for Which He Was Found Not Guilty, in Current Rape Trial—State v. Smith, No. 19-K-607, 2020 La. App. LEXIS 127, 2020 WL 356010 (La. Ct. App.), writ denied, 295 So. 3d 945 (2020); Nevada: Conviction for Sexual Assault of a Child Affirmed Where Miranda Warnings Were Properly Given in English to Nonnative English Speaker—Patel v. State, No. 77147 (Nev. 2020).].

Keywords: Survivor Confidentiality; Covid-19 Contact Tracing; Perpetrator Accountability and Victim Healing; Michelle Trent; Sexually Violent Predator Case Law

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