{"id":2689,"date":"2021-04-25T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2021-04-25T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:10:45","slug":"massachusetts-sjc-to-decide-important-domestic-assault-and-battery-case-involving-when-a-911-call-can-be-used-in-court-under-the-6th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-sjc-to-decide-important-domestic-assault-and-battery-case-involving-when-a-911-call-can-be-used-in-court-under-the-6th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts SJC to decide important Domestic Assault and battery case involving when a 911 call can be used in Court under the 6th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sixth Amendment promises the right to confront an adverse witness. However, when the witness is on the other end of a 911 call, this can lead to tricky constitutional issues. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will soon decide a confrontation clause issue in Commonwealth v. Rand<\/em><\/a>. Hopefully, the SJC will correct an error made by the lower court regarding Rand’s right to confrontation as defendant’s in domestic assault and battery cases have seen their right to confront their accuser diminished by recent Court decisions.<\/p>\n

What happened in the Rand <\/em>case?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This case arises out of a domestic dispute. Defendant Rand and his former girlfriend Otilia Cradock are parents to a young daughter. The couple was on and off, but Rand stayed involved in his daughter’s life, so he was often at Cradock’s home. One night, Cradock and her sister spent the night drinking wine at her apartment. She started to be rude to her sister. Her sister left the apartment. At around 1 in the morning, Cradock reported to police that her boyfriend had assaulted her. She said that he had strangled her until she passed out and urinated. When the 911 operator asked if the boyfriend was still at the home, she responded that he had left.<\/p>\n

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The Sixth Amendment promises the right to confront an adverse witness. However, when the witness is on the other end of a 911 call, this can lead to tricky constitutional issues. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will soon decide a confrontation clause issue in Commonwealth v. Rand. 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