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Lilly Vs. Virginia

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1999

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  4. U.S. 116 (1999) October Term, 1998 Syllabus Lilly V. Virginia
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  5. and his arguments based on Williamson v. United
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  6. States, 512 U. S. 594 , and the Confrontation Clause opinion of Lee v. Illinois
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  7. Justice Stevens, Joined by Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer, Concluded in Parts III, IV, and V. That
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  8. Mark's hearsay statements do not meet the requirements for admission set forth in Ohio v. Roberts
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  9. reliability of evidence against a defendant by subjecting it to rigorous testing in an adversary proceeding, Maryland v. Craig
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  10. U. S. 836 , 845, as by crossexamination of a declarant, see California v. Green
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  11. and cross-examination at a trial. Mattox v. United
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  12. White v. Illinois
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  13. of constitutional law such as whether a hearsay statement has sufficient guarantees of trustworthiness. See Ornelas v. United
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  14. contained in formalized testimonial material, such as affidavits, depositions, prior testimony, or confessions, White v. Illinois
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  15. special suspicion given a codefendant's strong motivation to implicate the defendant and exonerate himself. Lee v. Illinois
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  16. Pp. 144-148. 2. The Virginia Supreme Court did not analyze the confession under the second prong of the Ohio v. Roberts
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  17. The court then turned to petitioner's Confrontation Clause challenge. It began by relying on our opinion in White v. Illinois
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  18. his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation. He expanded his Sixth Amendment argument in his reply brief and cited Lee v. Illinois
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  19. U. S. 530 (1986), and Williamson v. United
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  20. sufficed to raise in the Supreme Court of Virginia the constitutionality of admitting Mark's statements. See Taylor v. Illinois
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  21. to submit to cross-examination, the 'greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.''' California v. Green
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  22. footnote and citation omitted). In our most recent case interpreting the Confrontation Clause, White v. Illinois
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  23. we considered it foreclosed by our prior cases. Instead, we adhered to our general framework, summarized in Ohio v. Roberts
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  24. the admission of statements falling within a firmly rooted hearsay exception since the Court's recognition in Mattox v. United
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  25. Lee v. Illinois
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  26. State v. Kirby
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  27. State v. Cowan
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  28. the first category above) from using them against other criminal defendants (the third category). In Bruton v. United
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  29. as a statement against his penal interest did not justify its use as evidence against another person. See Gray v. Maryland
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  30. Richardson 129 V. Marsh
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  31. Cruz v. New
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  32. were sufficiently reliable to warrant their admission at the trial of someone other than the declarant. See Donnelly v. United
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  33. pp. 289-290 (3d ed. 1940). See also Scolari v. United
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  34. United States v. Annunziato
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  35. Hines v. Commonwealth
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  36. In Crawford v. United
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  37. Id., at 204. Over 30 years ago, we applied this principle to the Sixth Amendment. We held in Douglas v. Alabama
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  38. dissenting).2 We have adhered to this approach in construing the Federal Rules of Evidence. Thus, in Williamson v. United
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  39. The only arguable exception to this unbroken line of cases arose in our plurality opinion in Dutton v. Evans
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  40. Vt. Rule Evid. 804(b)(3) (1998). See also State v. Myers
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  41. the Federal Rule, see n. 3, supra, and adhere to our interpretation of that rule in Williamson. See Smith v. State
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  42. United States v. Hammond
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  43. State v. Smith
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  44. State v. Matusky
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  45. State v. Ford
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  46. State v. Castle
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  47. Miles v. State
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  48. statements against the penal interest of the declarant to be used at criminal trials. See, e. g., Ellison v. Commonwealth
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  49. Va. 404, 247 S. E. 2d 685 (1978). That Virginia relaxed that portion of its hearsay law when it decided Chandler v. Commonwealth
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  50. Syllabus Lilly V. Virginia
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