McCoy v. Robbins

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• holding that statement declarant made in confidence and on his own initiative to a close family member was not testimonial
• holding that declaration against penal interest made to close family member in confidence was nontestimonial
• holding that statement declarant made in confidence and on his own initiative to a close family member was not testimonial
• concluding that statement was nontestimonial because declarant ‘‘made the statement in confidence and on his own initiative to a close family member, almost eighteen months before the defendant was arrested and more than four years before his own arrest’’
• explaining that Crawford overruled reliability approach set forth in Roberts for testimonial statements
• noting that traditional testimonial hearsay are ‘‘statements that were made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the state- ment would be available for use at a later trial’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

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