ANDREW WILLS v. UNITED STATES.

BECKWITH, Associate Judge:

After a bench trial, the trial judge in this case convicted appellant Andrew Wills of simple assault 1 and attempted second-degree theft 2 stemming from .an altercation between Mr. Wils and his wife in a gas station parking lot. Mr. Wills contends that his wife’s on-the-scene statement that Mr. Wills “snatched” her keys from her— uttered in response , to a police officer’s question about “how he got the keys”— was admitted in violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Const, amend. VI, cl. 2. We conclude that the…