Legal Opinion
Seely v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided April 10, 2008No. CR 07-1063PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Robert L. Brown, Justice.
Appellant John Leelyn Seely appeals his judgment of conviction for rape of his three-year-old daughter, for which he received a sentence of imprisonment as a habitual offender for a term of twenty years. He asserts a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution due to the hearsay testimony of two witnesses against him. We affirm.
In September of 2005, Seely was living with his girlfriend, Suzette Barnes, and the couple’s three-year-old daughter, J.B. On September 23, 2005, J.B. approached Barnes, complaining that her…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Davis v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
- Idaho v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by33 opinions
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