State v. Scacchetti’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “Various formulations of this core class of “testimonial” statements exist: [a] ex parte in-court testimony or its functional equivalent — that is, material such as affidavits, custodial examinations, prior testimony that the defendant was unable to cross-examine, or similar pretrial statements that declarants would reasonably expect to be used prosecuto-rially; [b] extrajudicial statements ... contained in formalized testimonial materials, such as affidavits, depositions, prior testimony, or confessions; [c] statements that were made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the statement would be available for use at a later trial[.]”

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

2. “I use all of my knowledge of how children disclose, out of the statements that they made during [the] interview, out of what a parent tells me about a medical history, about any histories of trauma, and my physical exam, and I put those, all of those sort of factors go together when I’m making a diagnosis that a child was sexually abused.”

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