In Cody v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the prosecution proved another strangulation case without the victim’s testimony through a well-documented investigation and forensic examination. The victim’s hearsay statements were admitted through spontaneous statements, the medical diagnosis exception and forfeiture by wrongdoing, as the prosecution was able to show that the defendant forfeited his right to cross exam the victim by his wrongful acts of witness intimidation.
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