Coblens v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• focusing on the declarant’s subjective intent and concluding that there was no evidence that the declarant intended to bear witness in contemplation of later legal proceedings
• considering application of the Confrontation Clause to excited utterances made in 911 calls
• 911 statements should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the call is for help or generated from a desire to bear witness
• “[T]he untainted evidence was overwhelming, and any error in admitting testimonial statements . . . was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• “It is necessary to look at the circumstances of the 911 call in each case to determine whether the declarant knowingly provided the functional equivalent of testimony to a government agent.”
• State presented untainted testimony by victim and officers and photographs of victim injuries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).