Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Recently, this court held that a [confidential informant’s, or C.I.’s,] statements recorded in the course of a controlled drug buy were not offered by the State to prove the truth of the matter asserted and, therefore, were “not hearsay.” Lehman v. State, 926 N.E.2d 35, 38 (Ind.Ct.App.2010), [trans. denied.] Specifically, this court, relying on a pre-Crawford decision of the Indiana Supreme Court, held that the C.I.’s statements were not hearsay because they “were largely designed to prompt [the defendant] to speak and[,] as such, it was the statements made by [the defendant] that really constituted the eviden-tiary weight of the conversation.” Id. (discussing Williams v. State, 669 N.E.2d 956, 957-58 (Ind.1996)).... We agree with the lead opinion in Lehman that the C.I.’s recorded statements during the two controlled drug buys were not offered by the State to prove the truth of the C.I.’s statements. In the case relied on by this court, our Supreme Court discussed a similar factual scenario as follows: [The defendant] contends the trial court erred by admitting two tapes of conversations [he] had with a police informant who died before [the defendant’s] trial. These conversations were recorded at [the defendant’s] residence through the use of a body microphone. In each, [the defendant] told the informant about his involvement in the crime, mentioning among other things that [his co-conspirator] still owed him some drugs as payment for his help. [The defendant] claims that th”

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