Coronado v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “[The defendant] contends admission of the unavailable victim's reliable statements deprived him of his state constitutional right literally to confront her face to face at trial. In essence, [the defendant] asks us to overrule our congruent precedent, and interpret the state Confrontation Clause to protect a broader range of rights than does the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We already have rejected this position and decline to revisit it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Phillips

2. “Virtually all courts that have reviewed the admissibility of forensic child-interview statements or videotapes ... [are] 'testimonial' and inadmissible unless the child testifies at trial or the defendant had a prior opportunity for cross-examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re P.M.

3. “constitutional substitute for live cross-examination and confrontation” of victim). In Coronado , we reasoned that the video statute provision allowing for ex parte interrogatories violated the Confrontation Clause because there was no”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bays, Michael Jay