Ohio v. Roberts, No. 78-756 (U.S. Supreme Court) (448 U.S. 56; 100 S.Ct. 2531) (June 25, 1980) (Justice Blackmun)
Here the Court held that statements made by individuals who are legally unavailable to testify at trial may be admitted where those statements are sufficiently reliable that confrontation at trial would be unlikely to enhance the testimony's accuracy.
In this case the Court examined the relationship between the Confrontation Clause ...
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