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Davis v. Washington - U.S. Supreme Court - Confrontation clause

By Rob Leonard

Click here to read the full opinion of the Supreme Court. Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided Davis v. Washington (Slip Opinion 05-5224) and Hammon v. Indiana (Case No. - 05-5705, which those of us that deal with any cases involving domestic violence have been anxiously awaiting for. You may recall what I wrote about Pitts v. State here.  Pitts dealt with 911 calls and their admissibility when a witness was unavailable to testify at trial.  The Crawford v. Washington ramifications of those calls were decided by the Georgia Court of Appeal in Pitts.  Click the link above to review that discussion. Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that were almost exactly like Pitts.  In a joint opinion, the Court issued a ruling that seems like it would have affirmed, at least the judgment of the Georgia Court of Appeals had the Pitts case gone up that far...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Law Blog on June 19, 2006 (boomark / email).