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Rhode Island Supreme Court rules murder victim's words admissible

The admission at trial of a murder victim's prior statements, which were not testimonial in nature, did not violate a defendant's constitutional right to confront his accuser, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided.The defendant argued that the principles articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2004 decision in Crawford v. Washington required the court to ...

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