Legal Opinion
Wall v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided January 18, 2006No. PD-1631-04PublishedCited by 503 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · CochranCochran, J.
A jury convicted appellant of aggravated assault and, finding that he had two prior felony convictions, assessed his punishment at 35 years’ imprisonment. On appeal, appellant argued that the trial court violated his right to confrontation when it allowed a police officer to testify about one of the assault victim’s out-of court statements made during a hospital interview. The court of appeals agreed that admitting the statements under the excited-utterance exception to the hearsay rule violated the Sixth Amendment under the recently announced Crawford standard. 1 The court of appeals…
3Cases cited38 opinions
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- Sullivan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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