Todd Delane Ferguson v. Texas Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• holding a victim's statements to emergency room doctor not testimonial where \the purpose of [the] examination was for medical diagnosis and treatment\
• explaining that there was “nothing in the record to indicate [the victim] believed or had reason to believe that her statements to [a doctor] would be used at a subsequent trial”
• statements to emergency room physician not testimonial when “the purpose of [the] examination was for medical diagnosis and treatment”
• identity of abuser in a domestic violence situation was pertinent and necessary to treatment
• wife's statements to emergency room physician about attack by her husband were nontestimonial where physician had no role in the investigation of the assault and was not working together with the police to develop testimony for the prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).