State v. Hudspeth

*478In two criminal cases, defendant was convicted of multiple sex offenses committed against his 15-year-old ward, J.1 In a consolidated appeal from the resulting judgments, defendant assigns error to the trial court's denial of his motion to exclude out-of-court statements made by his wife, Glenda Hudspeth, to police officers, a grand jury, and a social-service provider. In those statements, Glenda said that defendant had admitted to sexually abusing J. Defendant argues that the trial court's admission of the statements violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United…