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Putting client testimonials to work for your practice (access required)

Published: May 7, 2012

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The matter’s resolved, your work is done and the client is happy. But don’t flip to the last page before you consider asking your client for a testimonial about your service.

With a testimonial, your client’s enthusiasm can benefit more than your morale.

Suicide note not admissible (access required)

By: Nora Tooher
Published: June 24, 2010

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A suicide note implicating a defendant in a murder was testimonial and its admission violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause rights, the 6th Circuit has ruled.

Are dying victim’s statements to police testimonial? (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: March 1, 2010

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a shooting victim’s statements to police shortly before his death constituted inadmissible testimonial statements under the Sixth Amendment.

Statement to prison nurse admissible at trial (access required)

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: December 4, 2009

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A victim’s statements to a prison nurse during medical treatment are not testimonial and may be introduced at trial to establish that the defendant committed an assault, the 5th Circuit has ruled in upholding a conviction.

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