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LONGFELLOW v. STATE

No. 104, 1996.

688 A.2d 1370 (1997)

John W. LONGFELLOW, Sr., Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 10, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. O'Donnell (argued), and Paul S. Swierzbinski, Assistant Public Defenders, Office of Public Defender, Wilmington, for appellant.

John Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, for appellee.

Before VEASEY, C.J., WALSH, and HOLLAND, JJ.

WALSH, Justice:

In this appeal, we confront an evidentiary issue of first impression: is the admission of the hearsay statement of a deceased declarant in the State's rebuttal case, a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We conclude that the statement admitted under Delaware Rule of Evidence 806 is an accepted exception to the hearsay prohibition and carries sufficient guarantees of truthfulness as not to...

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