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Michigan v. Bryant, No. 09-150 (U.S. Supreme Court) (562 U.S. 344; 131 S.Ct. 1143) (February 28, 2011) (Justice Sotomayor)

Loaded on March 7, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists March 07, 2011
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Ongoing Emergency, Theory of.

Here a divided Court held, over a bitter dissent by Justice Scalia, that a statement given to police by a wounded crime victim may be admitted as evidence at the trial if the victim dies before trial on the theory of an ongoing emergency.

This is a Confrontation Clause case ...

 

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