Commonwealth v. Hearn’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Weatherford v. Bursey · Yates v. Evatt · Green v. Georgia · Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children
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“The defendant’s due process claims based on Chambersi, 410 U.S. at 302 , 93 S.Ct. 1038 ], and Green v. Georgia, 442 U.S. 95 , 97 [ 99 S.Ct. 2150 , 60 L.Ed.2d 738 (1979) ], also fail. As stated in Commonwealth v. Drew, 397 Mass. [65, ]72 n. 6, 489 N.E.2d 1233 [, 1239 (1986)], “Generally, Chambers based claims have been consistently rejected by the courts.” It is only in “rare and unique circumstances” that “the exclusion of evidence under hearsay rules defeats the ends of justice and thereby violates the due process clause.” Id. at 72, 489 N.E.2d 1233 . There was here none of the indicia of trustworthiness of evidence such that its exclusion violated fundamental fairness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hodge v. Mendonsa
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