591 So. 2d 535 - Weaver v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"While it may readily be conceded that hearsay rules and the Confrontation Clause are generally designed to protect similar values, it is quite a different thing to suggest that the overlap is complete and that the Confrontation Clause is nothing more or less than a codification of the rules of hearsay and their exceptions as they existed historically at common law. Our decisions have never established such a congruence; indeed, we have more than once found a violation of confrontation values even though the statements in issue were admitted under an arguably recognized hearsay exception. See Barber v. Page , 390 U.S. 719 [ 88 S.Ct. 1318 , 20 L.Ed.2d 255 ] (1968); Pointer v. Texas , 380 U.S. 400 [ 85 S.Ct. 1065 , 13 L.Ed.2d 923 ] (1965). The converse is equally as true; merely because evidence is admitted in violation of a long-established hearsay rule does not lead to the automatic conclusion that confrontation rights have been denied."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 726 So. 2d 756 - Radford v. State