State v. Hieb

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was harmless error to admit hearsay statements in violation of the confrontation clause because overwhelming untainted evidence proved the defendant's guilt
• rejecting argument that admission of any hearsay violates constitutional rights to confront and cross-examine witnesses
• engaging in a harmless error analysis of a confrontation clause violation that the Court of Appeals allowed under RAP 2.5, but not engaging in a RAP 2.5 analysis
• engaging in a harmless error analysis of a confrontation clause violation that the Court of Appeals allowed under RAP 2.5, but not engaging in a RAP 2.5 analysis
• \We take this opportunity to reaffirm our decision that a violation of the confrontation clause by the admission of hearsay evidence may constitute harmless error.\
• erroneous admission of hearsay harmless where \overwhelming circumstantial evidence\ supported State's theory and defendant's theory was incompatible with physical evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).