What is the test for determining that a child has understood the consequences of giving false testimony under oath?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cortez, 140 Misc.2d 267, 531 N.Y.S.2d 676 (N.Y. City Ct. 1988):
There must be a judicial ability to scrutinize the basis for determining that the child has understood the consequences of giving false testimony under oath and has some conception of the obligations of an oath ( People v. Ranum, 122 A.D.2d 959, 506 N.Y.S.2d 105).
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