So if I'm reading Williams v. Illinois right so far (and I haven't finished it), it seems persons with otherwise-inadmissible evidence useful to the prosecution can get it in by mentioning it to an expert who is going to testify for the state -- casual-like, so as not be "testimonial," see Thomas concurrence -- and this will be enought to get around both the hearsay rule and the Confrontation
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