Monthly Archives: December 2014
Confrontation Lines: Builders, Bashers, and the Swing Vote
This is the fifth and final installment in a series mapping Confrontation Clause doctrine since Crawford v. Washington (2004). In previous posts, I identified the 2-degree network connecting Williams v. Illinois (2012) to Crawford, calibrated the network to correct over- … Continue reading
Crawford Line: Author! Author!
This is the fourth installment in a series of blog posts charting out Confrontation Clause doctrine since 2004’s Crawford v. Washington. Last time, I deployed a Spaeth visualization to illustrate how the early doctrinal consensus around Crawford has collapsed. Today we introduce … Continue reading
Crawford Degree of Dissent
After a brief “True Threats” interruption, we return today to Confrontation Clause doctrine since Crawford v. Washington. In my last post in this series, I argued that 2008’s Indiana v. Edwards does not really belong in the Crawford network (even … Continue reading
True Threats Doctrinal Network
Today the Supreme Court will hear argument in Elonis v. United States, the Facebook “true threats” case. Given the buzz over this case, I’m going to interrupt my current series on the Confrontation Clause in order to briefly consider the doctrinal network … Continue reading