Lewis v. United States

TERRY, Senior Judge:

After a non-jury trial, appellant was convicted of assault. With support from ami-cus curiae, the Public Defender Service, appellant seeks reversal based on, inter alia, the decision of the Supreme Court in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004). Specifically, appellant and amicus contend that certain out-of-court hearsay statements that were admitted into evidence at trial violated the Confrontation Clause as interpreted by the Court in Crawford. Thus, on appeal, he claims that the trial court erred in admitting the victim’s statements…