# Commonwealth v. Baez

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · October 2, 1981 · 494 Pa. 388

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9763776

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Angel Santo BAEZ A/K/A Angel S. B. Crespo, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** October 2, 1981
- **Citations:** 494 Pa. 388; 431 A.2d 909; 1981 Pa. LEXIS 1052
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Flaherty
- **Judges:** O'Brien, Roberts, Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, Kauffman
- **Cited by:** 24 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a witness cannot be confronted with the out-of-court statements of other witnesses on cross-examination

## Opinion text

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the opinion authored by Mr. Justice Kauffman, but feel constrained to write separately due to a statement contained in that opinion regarding declarations, otherwise inadmissible hearsay, which bear “indicia of reliability.” The opinion of Mr. Justice Kauffman notes that the admissibility of such declarations is not the “settled law” of this Commonwealth. However, it is to be emphasized that not only is it not the settled law, it is not the law to any extent applicable in Pennsylvania.

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