All Articles tagged confrontation clause

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  CONFRONTING THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MARIAN EXAMINATION
  Lauren McLane

  The Supreme Court should implement Justice Thomas’s “formality and solemnity” approach the next time the Court interprets the Confrontation Clause in the context of multi-analyst forensic disciplines.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  TAKING CONFRONTATION SERIOUSLY: DOES CRAWFORD MEAN THAT CONFESSIONS MUST BE CROSS-EXAMINED?
  Mark A. Summers

  This article focuses on the applicability of the Supreme Court‘s decision in Crawford v. Washington to one subcategory of party admissions--defendants‘ confessions--taken by police officers in the course of interrogations.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  BATTLING THE THREAT: THE SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFTER DAVIS V. WASHINGTON
  Katherine G. Breitenbach

  This article examines the progression of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence to predict the future of domestic violence prosecution.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  THROWING STONES FROM WITHIN A GLASS HOUSE: WHY THE PROCEDURAL APPROACH TO CONFRONTATION FAILS TO REMEDY THE ILLS OF THE INDICIA OF RELIABILITY TEST, AND AN ARGUMENT FOR A BALANCED RULE
  Gordon Eddy

  This article argues that Crawford v. Washington's procedural approach threatens the public interest in effective enforcement of the criminal law without contributing to the discovery of truth.