Peak v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “[In that footnote], Justice Scalia was responding to concerns expressed in Chief Justice Rehnquist’s dissenting opinion that the reliability of some out-of-court statements “cannot be replicated even if the declarant testifies to the same matters in court.” ... Obviously, both Justice Scalia and Chief Justice Rehnquist were assuming that the declarant would testify, but the Chief Justice believed that the prior statement might be more reliable than the in-court testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Peak v. Webb