Grindle v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The hearsay exception for dying declarations is so firmly rooted in our common law that it was incorporated as a historical exception to the Sixth Amendment right to confront one’s accuser. This long-recognized evidentiary exception’s interplay with the Confrontation Clause is front and center in Brandon Grindle’s appeal of his deliberate-design murder conviction. On appeal, Grindle challenges the trial judge’s decision that the shooting victim’s nonverbal responses to a police officer’s questions about who shot him, made immediately before his death, were…