Further Update: on  June 18, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Supreme Court of Ohio in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Update: On October 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert. in this case, now captioned Ohio v. Clark. 13-1352.

On October 30, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a

This post is meant as a companion piece to better understand the merit decision in State v. Clark, posted here.

Federal Precedent

In 2004, in Crawford v. Washington, a landmark opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court authored by Justice Scalia, the Court held that to meet the requirements of the Confrontation Clause, certain kinds