Tennessee v. Street

We granted certiorari to decide whether respondent’s rights under the Confrontation Clause were violated by the introduction of the confession of an accomplice for the non-hearsay purpose of rebutting respondent’s testimony that his own confession was coercively derived from the accomplice’s statement.

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Ben Tester was last seen alive on August 26, 1981, as he walked toward his home in Hampton, Tennessee. The next day Tester’s body was found hanging by a nylon rope from an *411apple tree in his yard. Tester’s house had been ransacked, and it appeared that Tester had struggled with his assailants.

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