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Criminal,
Constitutional Law

Aug. 28, 2012

Crawford update: Part One

A review of Crawford discussing the latest developments on the confrontation of witnesses.

Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse

Elia V. Pirozzi

Assigned Judge

Criminal

Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), held that the admission of a "testimonial" hearsay statement violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause unless the declarant is unavailable and the defendant had a prior opportunity to cross-examine the declarant.

The objective of this article and accompanying self-study test is to provide readers with a review of the Crawford opinion and to discuss the latest developments in the field of confrontation of witnes...

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