Harper v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reaffirming that the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation does not apply to criminal sentencing proceedings and that Moses governs the admissibility of hearsay at sentencing
• rejecting the argument that Crawford applies to sentencing and noting the United States Supreme Court has continued to treat Williams as valid precedent, even in cases decided since Crawford
• discussing federal and state cases finding no confrontation right in sentencing proceedings
• “Panel decisions may be overruled through the en banc hearing process . . . but not by other panel decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).