Rose Marie Garcia v. the State of Texas

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• holding that the admission of a victim’s preliminary hearing testimony did not violate the Confrontation Clause despite the victim’s extensive “lapse of memory”
• finding that “hearsay rules and the Confrontation Clause are generally designed to protect similar values”
• explaining that face-to-face confrontation “forms the core of the values furthered by the Confrontation Clause”
• holding trial court’s admission of transcript of victim’s preliminary hearing testimony did not violate the Confrontation Clause despite the victim’s extensive “lapse of memory”
• observing that not all admissions of hearsay statements abridge rights under the Confrontation Clause
• holding prior statement subject to cross-examination when made does not violate Confrontation Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).