New Developments In Sixth Amendment Confrontation And Jurisdiction

摘要

This term included cases that generally confirmed our understanding of existing law, ratherrnthan significant change. The only exception was the admissibility of lab reports considered in United States v. Harcrow and United States v. Blazier, an issue that may ultimately be decided in the near future by the Supreme Court in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts.rnThe CAAF confirmed that Maryland v. Craig is still good law after Crawford, and the Supreme Court interpreted the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing consistently with the plain language of FRE 804(b)(6), which is identical to MRE 804(b)(6). United States v. Hart continued the trend by adhering to established precedent for determining the existence of personal jurisdiction. However, the split decision in that case also demonstrates the potential flexibility of appellate jurisprudence.