Barack Obama, Sir Walter Raleigh and Forensics (or the 2008 Election and the Future of the Right of Confrontation)

Abstract:     
For the Court in Crawford v. Washington, the historic roots of the right of Confrontation were a rejection of such procedures, and a mandate that “testimonial” hearsay be inadmissible unless the original declarant was now in court or was now unavailable to testify and there had been the opportunity for cross-examination when the statement was made. The relevance of Crawford (and Raleigh’s travails) to forensics can be found in the 2009 Melendez-Diaz decision.

What does this, and Sir Walter Raleigh, have to do with Barack Obama?

Number of Pages in PDF File: 1

Keywords: evidence, hearsay, right of confrontation

JEL Classification: K4

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