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Six-year-old shirley, a witness to a robbery, was asked to testify at the trial. the defense argued that her testimony would be invalid because:

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The reason that Shirley's testimony was invalid because she's a minor and by that, that memories about the robbery that she remembers could harm her and would most likely be susceptible to the suggestion. That is why the court would make her testimony as invalid and wouldn't consider it in any way even though she is the witness of the robbery.
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