Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 5/23/1973
Commonwealth v. Faison
Citations
- 452 Pa. 137
- 305 A.2d 44
- 1973 Pa. LEXIS 429
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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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Judges: Mandbeino, Jones, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino
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6 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. StorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
- Commonwealth v. BlairSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 461×
- Commonwealth v. JacksonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. GallowaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. ConnorsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-11· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. GriffinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 4×
Cites
6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
- Barber v. PageSupreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
- Commonwealth v. FaisonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-25· cited 85×
- Commonwealth v. VelasquezSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 30×
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