CHHS HOSPITAL COMPANY LLC, D/B/A CHESTNUT HILL HOSPITAL v. JOHN HARMON

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• holding that reliable hearsay evidence may be considered so long as it has “sufficient indicia of reliability”
• holding that a trial judge’s decision to put the probation officer who wrote a presentence report under oath during the sentencing hearing and allow the defense to voice its objections and cross examine the probation officer was constitutionally sufficient
• finding that a two-fold-increase in the defendant’s sentencing range did not trigger due process concerns
• legislature may not impose sentencing factors that become \a tail which wags the dog of the substantive offense\
• legislature may not impose sentencing factors that become “a tail which wags the dog of the substantive offense”
• two unnamed declarants were on pretrial diversion and the record was unclear regarding the circumstances of the diversions

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