in the Interest of L.L.R. and A.P.R., Children

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to “add [the right of face-to-face confrontation] to the very short list of rights” that must be relinquished personally by a defendant
• discussing community’s interest in finality in criminal justice system, balanced against need to provide relief where there is “possibility of error and of grave and lingering injustice”
• indicating reluctance to add new rights to the “very short list of rights . . . that must be waived personally by a defendant and cannot be waived by his counsel”
• noting deference due to motion judge who was also trial judge
• the states of Illinois, after Fitzpatrick, and Pennsylvania, after Ludwig, deleted the \face-to-face\ right from their constitutions
• new trial where waived claim of error results in substantial risk of miscarriage of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).