State v. Madrigal

Citations

• 2000 Ohio 448
• 87 Ohio St. 3d 378

Syllabus

Criminal law—Aggravated murder—Death penalty upheld, when—Evidence—Hearsay statements deemed sufficiently reliable to allow their admission into evidence without benefit of cross-examination, when—Accomplice's confession that inculpates a criminal defendant is not within a firmly rooted exception to the hearsay rule—Out-of-court statements made by an accomplice that incriminate the defendant may be admitted as evidence, when.