How sad that the Supreme Court, charged with upholding the Constitution, should make headlines by changing course and finally starting to do so.
(By the way, sometimes one cannot be confronted by ALL hearsay witnesses... 'dying declarations' fall under that heading, too!)
What's even more odd is that everyone except the mushy middle joined in upholding the Constitution (Rehnquist and O'Connor concurred with the specific result, not the reasoning, and most certainly not the wholesale disallowing of unchallenged hearsay).
Methinks "dying declarations" would fall under the time-honored "unavailable" exception.