Court Opinion

ID: 9535879
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 06:45:57.92684+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:22.390226
License: Public Domain

Justice SAYLOR,
concurring.
I join the majority opinion.
My only addition is to highlight the tension between the testimonial litmus of Craivford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36,124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), and the plain terms of the Sixth Amendment. See U.S. Const., amend. VI (“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him”). The many open questions in the wake of the immense shift in Confrontation Clause jurisprudence heralded by Crawford leaves lower-tier federal courts and state courts in a difficult position in terms of predicting the appropriate limits of this critical Sixth Amendment provision, as newly construed. Accord Michael H. Graham, 30B Fed. Prac. & Proc. Evid. § 7033 (2009).
I credit the majority opinion for doing the best job possible in such circumstances.
Chief Justice CASTILLE joins this concurring opinion.