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17 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 727 (1992)
The Oklahoma Rape Shield Statute: Who Needs a Shield When the Opponents' Weapons Have Been Seized

handle is hein.journals/okcu17 and id is 737 raw text is: OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 17 FALL 1992 NUMBER 3 NOTE THE OKLAHOMA RAPE SHIELD STATUTE: WHO NEEDS A SHIELD WHEN THE OPPONENTS' WEAPONS HAVE BEEN SEIZED? Then call them to our presence-face to face, and frouming brow to brow, ourselves will hear the accuser and the accused freely speak.1 I. INTRODUCTION Our criminal justice system is intended to permit the defen- dant every possible means of demonstrating his innocence.2 This has been at the core of the common law concept of due process since at least the days of the Romans.3 The Oklahoma 1. Coy v. Iowa, 487 U.S. 1012, 1016 (1988) (quoting Shakespeare, Richard II, act 1, sc. 1.). 2. Kirby v. United States, 174 U.S. 47, 55 (1899); see also Donald A. Dripps, The Constitutional Status of the Reasonable Doubt Rule, 75 CAL L REv. 1665 (1987). 3. Georgia J. Hinde, Note, Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) and the Con- frontation Clause: Closing the Window of Admissibility For Coconspirator Hearsay, 53 FORDHAM L REv. 1291 n.2 (1985) (quoting Acts 25:16 (King James)) (It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer for himself.).

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