Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court
Jul. 21, 2011
Procedural protections of the Sixth Amendment: The means to an end, or an end in themselves?
The U.S. Supreme Court faces an assortment of Sixth Amendment issues in its next term.
2nd Appellate District, Division 2
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Associate Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
As nearly every criminal jurist and practitioner knows, the U.S. Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effected a sea change in the meaning of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to "confront...the witnesses against him." Crawford interpreted the Confrontation Clause to mean that an out-of-court "testimonial" statement is admissible only if the declarant is subject to cross-examination (at or before trial), regardless of...
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