[DOWNLOAD] "State V. Ruelas" by Arizona Court of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State V. Ruelas
- Author : Arizona Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 15, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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This is an appeal from a conviction for manslaughter. This is the second time this case has been before us. The supreme court took review of our first opinion, State v. Ruelas, 165 Ariz. 326, 798 P.2d 1335 (App. 1990), in which we affirmed the conviction. Without deciding the case, the supreme court remanded it to us to consider in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Idaho v. Wright, 497 U.S. 805 (1990), a case decided after we filed our opinion. In Idaho v. Wright, the Supreme Court explained the limitations that the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment to the Constitution of the United States places on the admission of hearsay evidence. We have reconsidered the case in light of Idaho v. Wright, and we find that the admission of hearsay statements made by the victim in this case did violate the confrontation clause. Accordingly, we reverse and remand.