Courts have called the decision a “bombshell,” a “renaissance,” and the dawning of a “new day” in the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause jurisprudence. News reports have called the decision “an earthquake rocking America's criminal justice foundations.” Four years ago, in Crawford v. Washington, the United States Supreme Court revisited the scope and purposes of the constitutional guarantee that a criminal defendant shall “be confronted with the witnesses against him.” The case and its progeny redefined this clause's implications for hearsay statements...