State v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[T]he Court indicated that, at a minimum, there were four types of evidence that met the definition of testimonial: grand jury testimony, preliminary hearing testimony, former trial testimony, and statements resulting from police interrogation. These are the types of evidence with the “closest kinship” to historical “abuses at which the Confrontation Clause was directed.” In addition to these four categories of evidence, the Supreme Court provided three “formulations” to aid courts in determining whether other types of statements are testimonial. The first formulation involved ex parte in-court testimony or its functional equivalent where the declarant would reasonably expect the statements to be used at trial and where the defendant was unable to cross-examine the declarant. The second formulation involved formalized testimonial materials such as confessions and depositions. The third and most open-ended formulation included statements made under circumstances that would lead witnesses to objectively believe the statements might be used at trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Schaer

2. “it's just really important the police know about everything that happened”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Arnold, 07ap-789 (7-10-2008)