Freddie Joseph Phillips v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary

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• requiring that a good faith effort be made as a component of the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation
• requiring good faith effort as an aspect of the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation
• “admitting the prior testimony of a witness does not violate the Confrontation Clause where the witness is unavailable for trial, the testimony was given at a previous judicial proceeding against the same defendant, and the defendant had an opportunity to cross-examine the witness.”
• “A waiver of the confrontation right must be effected personally by an accused who is acting intentionally and knowledgeably.”
• “Once the opportunity to cross- examine has been accorded, the confrontation requirement is fulfilled. The actual use then made of the opportunity becomes a matter of defense strategy, and deliberate trial tactics do not ordinarily exact constitutional protection.”

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