O'CONNELL

v.

BACA, JUDGE, DISTRICT COURT OF NEW MEXICO, BERNALILLO COUNTY, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Conner v. State, 748 So. 2d 950 (Fla. 1999)
  …the right of confrontation “has been a cornerstone of Western society for a number of centuries.” Harrell v. State, 709 So. 2d 1364, 1367 (Fla.1998) (citing Coy v. Iowa, 487 U.S. 1012, 1015-16, 108 S.Ct. 2798, 101 L.Ed.2d 857 (1988)), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 903, 119 S.Ct. 236, 142 L.Ed.2d 194 (1998). Over one hundred years ago, the United States Supreme Court explained that: The primary object of the [Confrontation Clause] was to prevent depositions or ex parte affidavits, such as were sometimes admitted…
• A.B. v. Fla. Dep't of Child. & Fam. Servs., 901 So. 2d 324 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005)
  …accuser, the mother relies on criminal cases interpreting the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. See e.g., State v. Abreu, 837 So. 2d 400 (Fla.2003); Harrell v. State, 709 So. 2d 1364 (Fla.), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 903, 119 S.Ct. 236, 142 L.Ed.2d 194 (1998). We find that the mother’s reliance on these criminal cases is misplaced. Dependency proceedings are civil [*327] in nature and not criminal. S.B. v. Department of Children & Families, 851 So. 2d 689, 691 (Fla.…
• State v. Tarrago, 800 So. 2d 300 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001)
  …relied on its inherent powers to use an unauthorized procedure that would have protected the child witness in the instant case. State v. Ford, 626 So. 2d at 1345 (citations omitted); see also Harrell v. State, 709 So. 2d 1364 (Fla.), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 903, 119 S.Ct. 236, 142 L.Ed.2d 194 (1998); Hernandez v. State, 597 So. 2d 408, 410 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (“The state has an interest in protecting child victims of sexual or other abuse from the additional trauma of testifying in open court, in defendant’…