United States v. Owens

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1988-02-23

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Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to determine whether either the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment or Rule 802 of the Federal Rules of Evidence bars testimony concerning a prior, out-of-court identification when the identifying witness is *556 unable, because of memory loss, to explain the basis for the i…

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