Corbin v. State’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: “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 prosecutorially,” ... “extrajudicial statements ... contained in formalized testimonial materials, such as affidavits, depositions, prior testimony, or confessions,” ... “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,”.... These formulations all share a common nucleus and then define the Clause’s coverage at various levels of abstraction around it.”

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

2. “only applies to statements that are 'testimonial.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clyde Chatman, Jr. v. State of Mississippi