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Peters v. State

Citations

  • 984 So. 2d 1227
  • 2008 WL 1901668

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  • holding “revocation of probation or community control proceedings are not criminal prosecutions” (citing Morrissey, 408 U.S. at 480)
  • explaining that because Crawford v. Washington addresses the use of testimonial hearsay only in the context of a “criminal prosecution,” the decision in Crawford does not apply to probation revocation proceedings
  • acknowledging “that while probation is not necessarily a sentence, the criminal prosecution has ended with either a sentence of incarceration or a suspended sentence of probation”
  • “revocation of probation . . . proceedings are not criminal prosecutions and [] Crawford does not apply”
  • “[A] revocation proceeding cannot be equated to a criminal prosecution for Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause purposes.”

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