Commonwealth v. Faison

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• error to admit prior testimony where witness’s unavailability was not shown; there had been no attempt to compel attendance, only unsuccessful phone calls
• error to admit prior testimony where witness's unavailability was not shown; there had been no attempt to compel attendance, only unsuccessful phone calls
• prosecution failed to make good faith effort to establish witness’s unavailability when it knew where witness resided and made no attempt to - 21 - J-A19022-25 secure compulsory attendance at hearing other than unsuccessful phone calls
• the prosecution failed to establish the unavailability of a witness by showing a good faith effort when it knew where the witness resided and made no attempt to secure compulsory attendance at the hearing and the only efforts were unsuccessful phone calls

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