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Enslaved To Judicial Supremacy?, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 1993

Enslaved To Judicial Supremacy?, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

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White V. Illinois: The Confrontation Clause And The Supreme Court's Preference For Out-Of-Court Statements, Nancy H. Baughan Jan 1993

White V. Illinois: The Confrontation Clause And The Supreme Court's Preference For Out-Of-Court Statements, Nancy H. Baughan

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Confrontation Clause, found in the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides criminal defendants with the right to confront adverse witnesses.' A literal interpretation of the Confrontation Clause would preclude courts from allowing the admission of all hearsay testimony. The Court has rejected this interpretation, noting that it would render meaningless every exception to the rule against hearsay. Although unwilling to hold that the Confrontation Clause mandates exclusion of all hearsay, the Court has found that the Clause requires the exclusion of some hearsay statements. The Supreme Court has struggled to define the relationship between the exceptions to …