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Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The Court held that prior testimonial statements of witnesses who have since ...
The Supreme Court has further clarified that a "statement" refers to "a single declaration or remark, rather than a report or narrative". [3] Thus, a trial court must separately analyze each individual statement, "sentence-by-sentence", [4] rather than analyzing the narrative as whole for hearsay content or exceptions.
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hillmon, 145 U.S. 285 (1892), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that created one of the most important rules of evidence in American and British courtrooms: an exception to the hearsay rule for statements regarding the intentions of the declarant. [1]
Regarding the New York Court of Appeals decision in People v. Reid, the opinion rejects the appellate court's notion that the "door-opening" rule established in Reid is an exception to the Confrontation Clause. Rather, it asserts that it is merely a "procedural rule" dictating the manner in which a defendant may assert his confrontation right ...
The Supreme Court receives about 7,000 to 8,000 petitions filed each term, and will decide about 80 cases on average. Kevin Wagner is a noted constitutional scholar and political science professor ...
Sotomayor, the first Latina on the high court bench, has embraced her role as the chief counterweight to the conservative majority and made clear she has plenty of fight left to give.
Even though most Americans don’t like some of the Supreme Court’s highest-profile recent decisions, a new poll Thursday found that a vast majority believe presidents must still honor them.
"Hearsay is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted." [1] Per Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(a), a statement made by a defendant is admissible as evidence only if it is inculpatory; exculpatory statements made to an investigator are hearsay and therefore may not be admitted as ...