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It is testimonial to the image's power that it even affects people who haven't seen it.
The question in this case, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, No. 07-591, is whether a laboratory report is simply a business record or whether it is "testimonial evidence" to which the clause applies.
Even assuming that the statutory requirement of the essentially neutral act of disclosing name and address is incriminating in the traditional sense, it would be an extravagant extension of the privilege to hold that it is testimonial in the Fifth Amendment sense.
Even if we were to view the statutory reporting requirement as incriminating in the traditional sense, in our view it would be the 'extravagrant' extension of the privilege Justice Holmes warned against to hold that it is testimonial in the Fifth Amendment sense.
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It is a testimonial to the days when Cordoba was the capital of Islamic Spain, and Islam itself, which had spread across northern Africa, was on the verge of turning the Mediterranean into a Muslim lake.
It is a testimonial to the human Spirit alive and well in the lives of those who dare to stand up and be counted in original ways.
To put the best face on it, memoirs are testimonials to the private life.
Witness poetry was testimonial rather than polemical.
Were testimonial transmission inferential, the deferment to the original speaker is ruled out.
The deciding word was "testimonial," which caused Frankenberg some consternation.
Most advertisements featured acted scenes, and only a small proportion were testimonial advertisements.
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