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White Vs. Illinois

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 15, 1992

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  13. U.S. 346 (1992) October Term, 1991 Syllabus White V. Illinois
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  14. Court affirmed his conviction, rejecting his Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause challenge that was based on Ohio v. Roberts
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  15. U. S. 56 . The court concluded that this Court's later decision in United States v. Inadi
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  16. role in restricting the admission of hearsay testimony, is foreclosed by this Court's decisions, see, e. g., Mattox v. United
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  17. practical benefits while imposing pointless litigation costs. pp. 353-357. (c) White misplaces his reliance on Coy v. Iowa
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  18. U. S. 1012 , and Maryland v. Craig
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  19. Confrontation Clause 3 challenge, a challenge based principally on language contained in this Court's decision in Ohio v. Roberts
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  20. U. S. 56 (1980). It concluded that our later decision in United States v. Inadi
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  21. testimony, is foreclosed by our prior cases. The discussions in these cases, going back at least as far as Mat tox v. United
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  22. California v. Green
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  23. Justice. See Dutton v. Evans
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  24. sufficient indicia of reliability to satisfy the reliability requirement posed by the Confrontation Clause. See Idaho v. Wright
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  25. Bourjaily v. United
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  26. p. 195 (J. Chadbourn rev. 1976), and may date to the late 17th century. See Thompson v. Trevanion
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  27. U. S. 1012, 1020 (1988) (quoting Kentucky v. Stincer
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  28. argument, petitioner presses upon us two recent decisions involving child testimony in childsexual-assault cases, Coy v. Iowa
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  29. supra, and Maryland v. Craig
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  30. a defendant within the meaning of the Clause, see, e. g., Ohio v. Roberts
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  31. Lee v. Illinois
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  32. There is virtually no evidence of what the drafters of the Confrontation Clause intended it to mean. See California v. Green
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  33. modified). The Wigmore view was endorsed by Justice Harlan in his opinion concurring in the result in Dutton v. Evans
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  34. United States 662 (1833), and this Court previously has recognized the common-law origins of the right, see Salinger v. United
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  35. indicated that the primary purpose of the Clause was to prevent the abuses that had occurred in England. See Mattox v. United
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  36. on this point.1 As a matter of plain 1 The only recent decision to address this question explicitly was Ohio v. Roberts
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  37. id., at 63 (citing California v. Green
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  38. Clause limits admission of hearsay evidence have no basis in the text of the Sixth Amendment. Ever since Ohio v. Roberts
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  39. ibid. See, e. g., Idaho v. Wright
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  40. as a means of depriving criminal defendants of the benefit of the adversary process, see, e. g., Mattox v. United
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  41. an approach would be consistent with the vast majority of our cases, since virtually all of them decided before Ohio v. Roberts
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  42. the hearsay context. Furthermore, this interpretation would avoid the problem posed by the 2 See, e. g., Reynolds v. United
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  43. Mattox v. United
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  44. Motes v. United
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  45. Bruton v. United
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  46. Syllabus White V. Illinois
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  47. Ohio v. Roberts
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  48. and Maryland v. Craig
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  49. Justice. See Dutton v. Evans
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  50. the Confrontation Clause. See Idaho v. Wright
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