Joseph Tamez v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that there is no right to confront witnesses in hearing to civilly commit sex offender as a sexually dangerous person
• refusing to apply Crawford to civil commitment case in which the Sixth Amendment confrontation clause does not apply
• “fact of conviction is a powerful independent indicator of the reliability” of statements describing offense in police report
• \The fact of conviction is a powerful independent indicator of the reliability of the statements describing the offense on which the conviction rests\
• admission of hearsay contained in police report, though admissible by statute, must nonetheless be reviewed for due process violation
• “The Crawford case has no direct bearing on this case, because, as we have made clear, the confrontation clause does not apply to civil commitment proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).