B.M.P. v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"... the key question in determining whether or not an abuse of the Patterson rule has occurred is whether the State has submitted evidence as to the relevant factual events in the case by directly examining (and thereby making available for cross-examination) the witness-declar-ant about those facts. What we will not permit is for the State to put in substantive evidence of the witness-declarant's version of the facts solely through the admission of the witness' prior statement under the pretext of the Patterson rule. At some point the State must put the declarant of the prior statement on the witness stand and elicit testimony as to the facts at issue." 6”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crafton v. State