Jeffrey Fisher: Confronting the Confrontation Clause 
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Tags: Blakely v. Washington, Confrontation Clause, Crawford v. Washington, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Sixth Amendment
Jeffrey Fisher is confronting the Confrontation Clause, one U.S. Supreme Court case at a time.
Fisher is hooked on the Sixth Amendment - and for good reason.
He has won three groundbreaking Supreme Court cases on the subject that will be cited for generations.
Two of those wins came in 2004. First, Crawford v. Washington established new rules ...
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