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DYING DECLARATION ADMISSIBLE

Filed under: Criminal Law, Death Penalty Cases, News Tags: by Steven F. Fairlie @ February 28, 2011

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a dying declaration of the victim of a gunshot wound, identifying the shooter, is admissible. The High Court ruled in a 6-2 decision that despite the fact that five different officers interrogated the man, his statements were not testimonial in nature and instead were elicited in an […]

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