that address, he was confronted by several subjects outside who pointed a gun at him, made him undress and took his clothes from him, $500 in cash and then fired shots at him.
PROSECUTOR: And this was Antoine Baker?
DETECTIVE KEEL: Yes. He identified Antoine Baker.
PROSECUTOR: And as a result of statements Jerry Otis made to you, what did you do in response?
DETECTIVE KEEL: Had a warrant issued.
*879 Dednam relies on the United State's Supreme Court decision in Crawford v. Washington, supra, as his primary authority. In that case, the petitioner, Michael Crawford, was accused of stabbing Kenneth Lee, who had allegedly tried to rape Crawford's wife, Sylvia. Following Crawford's arrest, he and his wife gave statements to police officers regarding the stabbing, and Crawford was charged with the crime.United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether the State's use of Sylvia's statement violated Crawford's confrontation-clause rights.
The United States Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Washington Supreme Court. The Court noted that the principal evil at which the clause was directed was the use of ex parte examinations as evidence against an accused and added that the framers of the United States Constitution would not have allowed the admission of testimonial statements of a witness who did not appear at trial unless he was unavailable to testify and the defendant had had a prior opportunity for cross-examination. The Court further said that "[s]tatements taken by police officers in the course of interrogations are also testimonial under even a narrow standard." 124 S.Ct. at 1364. It