U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Child’s Statements to Teachers Are Non-Testimonial

Published for NC Criminal Law on July 06, 2015.

On June 18th the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ohio v. Clark, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2173 (2015), holding that a child abuse victim’s statements to his preschool teachers were non-testimonial under the Crawford confrontation clause analysis. As the first Crawford case addressing statements by a child victim, Clark is an important decision for ... Read more

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