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historical record, Scalia stated, "the Framers would not have allowed admission of testimonial statements of a witness who did not appear at trial unless he was unavailable to testify, and the defendant had had a prior opportunity for cross-examination." Scalia determined that a prior opportunity for cross-examination was mandatory, and dispositive of whether or not testimonial statements of an unavailable witness are admissible. Testimonial statements are formal declarations, i.e., those made to law enforcement or government personnel. "Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty."
31: 475:, the standard used by the Washington state courts. He thought the Crawford decisions of the various levels of Washington state courts epitomized this problem. Justice Scalia gave a thorough history of the Confrontation Clause, explaining how the Clause became part of the Constitution using famous English cases, such as that of 357:. Mr. Crawford said to the police that he was not sure if Mr. Lee had a weapon, but that Crawford believed at the time that Lee did. Mrs. Crawford, being interrogated separately, at first said that she had not seen the attack, but under further questioning said that she had seen the attack and that Lee was not holding a weapon. 545:, a common practice, which allows the accused to be prosecuted without the participation of their accusers in the criminal court process. Evidence-based prosecution relies heavily on admission of statements under hearsay exceptions to reproduce the evidentiary effect of a victim testifying in court. The 490:
Court determined that where non-testimonial statements are involved, the Confrontation Clause allows a court to use its discretion to determine the reliability of the statements. "Where testimonial evidence is at issue, however, the Sixth Amendment demands what the common law required: unavailability
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standard was still controlling law. Crawford and his wife, Sylvia, were questioned separately by police regarding a stabbing incident that had taken place at Lee's home. The statements of the two were generally corroborating, but while Michael had claimed self-defense, Sylvia implied that Michael was
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Legal scholars' main criticism of the decision was the courts' failure to define "testimonial." One of the main areas in which lower courts struggled to resolve this issue was the use of 911 calls during the course of trial where the caller is not available to testify. This was the factual situation
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The United States Supreme Court held that the use of the spouse's recorded statement made during police interrogation violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against the defendant where the spouse, because of the state law marital privilege, did not testify
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The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment (applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment) provides: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right… to be confronted with the witnesses against him." This right has a very specific purpose. The focus of the Clause is
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This history, Scalia concluded, clearly shows that the Confrontation Clause was directed at keeping "ex parte" examinations out of the evidentiary record. Specifically, the Confrontation Clause applies to "witnesses" against the accused, meaning those who "bear testimony." Relying on this and the
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The defense counsel objected to the admission of the wife's statement, on the ground that Mr. Crawford would be unable to confront (i.e., cross-examine) Mrs. Crawford on her statement without waiving spousal privilege, and that this would be a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth
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This decision had an immediate, profound effect upon the ability of prosecutors to prove their cases through the use of evidence that had previously been admissible via various exceptions to the hearsay rule. Justice Scalia's opinion explicitly states that any out-of-court statement that is
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if a witness is unavailable, that witness's testimony can be admitted through a third person if it bears "adequate indicia of reliability." This was true if a statement fell within a "firmly rooted hearsay exception" or had "particularized guarantees of trustworthiness."
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in which the Court laid out a definition of "testimonial." Other cases have dealt with the issue of the previously common practice of admitting certain types of certified documents under the business records or public records exception to the hearsay rule.
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Does playing out-of-court testimony to a jury, with no chance for cross-examination, violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee that "n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right...to be confronted with the witnesses against
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the defendant has had a prior opportunity to cross-examine him or her. However, the opinion does not define "testimonial," which has allowed courts across the country to determine that issue for themselves.
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Amendment. The court allowed the statement to be admitted on the basis that the statement was reliable, as it was partially corroborated by Mr. Crawford's statement to police, amongst other things.
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and a prior opportunity for cross-examination. . . . he only indicium of reliability sufficient to satisfy constitutional demands is the one the Constitution actually prescribes: confrontation."
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framework. Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, stated he would not have expanded the right of defendants to exclude out-of-court statements on the basis that they could not confront the witness.
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on getting the truth out of a witness, and allowing a trier of fact to determine whether the witness indeed told the truth. Even given these important goals, this right is not absolute.
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The use at trial of out-of-court statements made to police by an unavailable witness violated a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him.
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reversed that decision. After applying a nine-factor test to determine whether Sylvia's statement was reliable, and therefore admissible under the doctrine of
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Court's decision renders most of these statements inadmissible without the accuser coming to court and testifying against the person he or she is accusing.
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when he believed Lee had picked up a weapon. Lee denied doing anything that might make Crawford believe he was trying to attack him.
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Michael Crawford and his wife Sylvia Crawford confronted Kenneth Lee over an allegation that Lee had attempted to
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law states that a spouse cannot testify in court without the accused spouse's consent (except when a spouse is a
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the controlling standard for admitting statements that unavailable witnesses made to other persons was that of
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and the decisions following it, also radically changed the handling of domestic violence cases by curtailing
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not protecting himself when he stabbed Lee. At trial, the state moved to admit Sylvia's statement under
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Admission of out-of-court statements, therefore, is and has been possible. For over 20 years prior to
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The statement was allowed into evidence at the trial, and the prosecution relied on it heavily in its
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concurred in the result, but would have decided the case on narrower grounds, within the older
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Mrs. Crawford. Michael Crawford stabbed Lee in the torso. Crawford claimed he had acted in
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The trial court admitted the evidence, "noting several reasons why it was trustworthy."
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reinstated the conviction, ruling that the witness's statement was reliable under
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When Michael Crawford was accused of stabbing Kenneth Lee on August 5, 1999, the
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decision that reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of
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Scalia, joined by Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
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Michael Crawford was convicted at the trial level. However, the
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statements in criminal cases is permitted under the
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Index

Supreme Court of the United States
02-9410
U.S.
36
more
L. Ed. 2d
U.S. LEXIS
Oral argument
Opinion announcement
P.3d
656
cert
539
U.S.
William Rehnquist
John P. Stevens
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
David Souter
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
U.S. Const. amend. VI
XIV
Ohio v. Roberts
United States Supreme Court
hearsay
Confrontation Clause
Sixth Amendment

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