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Karina Rafter v. Virginia
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 210183 · judgment November 4, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does the admission of out-of-court statements of a decedent, offered under the state-of-mind excep tion, violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment where there is evidence of unreliability and bias?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Cary B. Bowen
Bowen, Medina & Lindemann
For respondent
Andrew Nathan Ferguson
Office of the Attorney General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, May 16, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 16 2022Petition DENIED.
- Apr 20 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/12/2022.
- Apr 13 2022Waiver of right of respondent Virginia to respond filed.
- Feb 02 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 14, 2022)