Cajule Cedant v. United States

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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defendant waives 13 right to object to a hearsay statement on confrontation grounds when he or she offers the statement
• holding that a defendant waives [13] right to object to a hearsay statement on confrontation grounds when he or she offers the statement
• holding that a defendant can waive his right to be present at trial
• holding that double jeopardy was not implicated when a defendant was tried for assault, then subsequently tried for murder after the victim of the assault passed away a few weeks later
• stating that a criminal defendant’s right to be present at every stage of trial is “scarcely less important to the accused than the right of tidal itself’
• recognizing right of defendant to knowingly absent himself from the courtroom after trial has commenced

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