Supreme Court of Connecticut· 4/6/2004

State v. Rivera

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268 Conn. 351
844 A.2d 191
2004 Conn. LEXIS 129

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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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