United States v. Thomas Hinton AKA James Kirkland Thomas Hinton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “Crawford’s third and broadest formulation of ‘testimonial’ will ensure compliance with the [confrontation [c]lause”
• stating that “[t]he threshold question in any Confrontation Clause analysis . . . is whether the statement is testimonial.”
• noting that 911 calls are made for several reasons, such as preserving health and safety and providing information to police; in instant case, call was nontestimonial because caller sought assistance
• noting that 911 calls are made for several reasons, such as preserving health and safety and providing information to police; in instant case, call was nontestimonial because caller sought assistance
• explaining that statements are testimo- nial when “made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the statement would be available for use at a later trial”
• finding statements testimonial where the victim identified his assailant while riding with the police in their cruiser

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).