Court Opinion

ID: 9856943
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:07:47.814631+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:35.359680
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Justice
(concurring specially) :
The rule announced in State v. Radabaugh, 93 Idaho 727, 471 P.2d 582 (1970), which permits a witness to testify concerning conversations with the deceased outside the presence of the defendant is an intrusion on the right to confrontation guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United . States Constitution, as announced in Douglas v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S.Ct. 1074, 13 L.Ed.2d 934 (1965), and Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74, 91 S.Ct. 210, 27 L.Ed.2d 213 (1970). Even if those statements are limited to direct evidence of the state of mind of the deceased, where that issue is relevant in the case (see footnote 7 of the majority opinion), they may not survive the broad sweep of the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee.