Statements by very young children or to persons other than law enforcement officials will rarely trigger a criminal defendant’s right to confront his accuser at trial, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
In Ohio v. Clark, the unanimous high court held that the introduction at trial of a 3-year-old child’s statements to teachers who suspected he had been abused did not violate the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
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