254 N.C. App. 95 - State v. Clonts’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Crawford v. Washington · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts
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“[t]he trial court was required to make sufficient findings of fact, based upon competent evidence, in support of any ruling that the State had satisfied its burden of demonstrating that it had been unable to procure [the declarant's] attendance ... by process or other reasonable means for the purposes of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8C-1, Rule 804(a)(5), and that it had made a good-faith effort to obtain [her] presence at trial for Confrontation Clause purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not address the option of continuing trial until [the witness] returned from [military] deployment, nor did it make any finding ... the State made a good-faith effort to obtain [the witness'] presence at trial[,] much less any findings demonstrating what actions taken by the State could constitute good-faith efforts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e must determine: (1) whether the evidence admitted was testimonial in nature; (2) whether the trial court properly ruled the declarant was unavailable; and (3) whether defendant had an opportunity to cross-examine the declarant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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