The future of the dying declaration doctrine in light of Supreme Court opinions such as " Crawford v . Washington " ( 2004 ) is unclear ( " Crawford " was decided under the constitution's Confrontation Clause, not the common law ).
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The militant had been identified as Abu Adnan, belonging to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Tayyaba group, and made a dying declaration to the local police chief that he and another Lashkar member had carried out the July attack on Jammu slum dwellers, Gupta said.
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The arrest was claimed to be based on the dying declaration of the gang s leader, but it was subsequently shown that the gang leader had prior personal enmity with the ex-minister and was not in danger of dying when the confession was extracted from him.
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Still another exception is " the use of testimonial statements for purposes other than establishing the truth of the matter asserted . " Another possible exception is for dying declarations, i . e . statements made by a speaker on the brink of death while aware that he or she is dying.
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During a riot in the prison yard ( which happens to break out at the same time Charles Pierce brought prison officials a dying declaration from Broadway . . . right before he hanged himself in prison doing his own time, which meant Avery's immediate release ), Cashmere goes up to Avery and stabs him.
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No evidence contradicting Dewhurst's dying declaration having been adduced, the jury were unwilling to convict; but the foreman of the jury was told by the judge, in the house of the latter, that the Government was determined to get a conviction, that a murder had been committed, and that the jury must bring in a verdict of guilty.
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Opinions such as " Giles v . California " ( 2008 ) discuss the matter ( although the statements in " Giles " were not a dying declaration ), but Justice Ginsberg notes in her dissent to " Michigan v . Bryant " ( 2011 ) that the court has not addressed whether the dying declaration exception is valid after the confrontation clause cases.
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Opinions such as " Giles v . California " ( 2008 ) discuss the matter ( although the statements in " Giles " were not a dying declaration ), but Justice Ginsberg notes in her dissent to " Michigan v . Bryant " ( 2011 ) that the court has not addressed whether the dying declaration exception is valid after the confrontation clause cases.
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The courthouse operated for nineteen years, and during this period those sentenced to death were Slaves are persons, not things, and cannot therefore be seized provisionally . " In 1865, a murder trial took place in which the trial judge held that the dying declaration of the ten-year-old victim could be admitted into evidence; the ruling was upheld the next year by the Louisiana Supreme Court.