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Crawford v. Washington One Year Later: Its Practical Effects in Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Cases
Author(s) -
GERSTEN JUDGE DAVID M.,
KARAN JUDGE AMY
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.2005.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - confrontation clause , supreme court , law , context (archaeology) , domestic violence , political science , child abuse , criminology , psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , history , medicine , environmental health , archaeology
A year after the United States Supreme Court decided Crawford v. Washington , 541 U.S. 36 (2004), the maelstrom that many legal scholars anticipated has failed to materialize. Crawford's abrogation of Ohio v. Roberts , 448 U.S. 56 (1980), and its articulation of the new standard for determining when the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out‐of‐court statements, has had less effect than some predicted, regarding which statements are admissible and which are excluded. This article explores Crawford's practical effect as courts around the country have applied it, particularly in the context of child abuse and domestic violence cases.