Barker v. Board of County Commissioners

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• holding similar conversations, even though incriminating, do not implicate confrontation clause concerns because conversations were “far more in the nature of the type of casual, offhand remarks made between friends that routinely are held to be nontestimonial in nature”
• admitting recorded incarcerated phone calls between declarant and family members or equivalently trusted associates
• Rule 807 employed “very rarely, and only in exceptional circumstances

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