State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The court in Crawford declined to provide an explicit definition of testimonial evidence, but the opinion explains: An accuser who makes a formal statement to government officers bears testimony in a sense that a person who makes a casual remark to an acquaintance does not. The fact that a statement is made to a person who is not a government officer does not, as a bright line, necessarily mean that the statement is not “testimonial” within the ambit of the Sixth Amendment. Courts have been much more reluctant, however, to find a statement made to a non-governmental officer to be testimonial. For example, in State v. Heggar, 39,915 (La.App.2d Cir.8/17/05), 908 So.2d 1245 , this court found the present-sense impressions of a victim made over the telephone to a witness immediately prior to the victim’s murder to be non-testimonial in nature. There was nothing to suggest that the victim believed that his statements would ever be used for ^formal purposes such as a trial. See also State v. Parks, 08-423 (La.App. 5th Cir.11/25/08), 2 So.3d 470 , writ denied, 09-0142 (La.10/2/09), 18 So.3d 101 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 71 So. 3d 492 - State v. Richardson