U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 27, 2015
Prosecuting child abusers just got easier
The U.S. high court just made it easier to prosecute child abusers by retreating a bit from the court's stringent confrontation clause standards. By Joan S. Meier
Last week, in Ohio v. Clark, the U.S. high court both helped ensure child abusers may be successfully prosecuted
and laid to rest several questions about the scope of a defendant's right to confront
the witnesses against him. The decision also speeds the court's retreat from the stringent
standard Justice Antonin Scalia sought to ordain in Crawford v Washington (2004).
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