State Of Washington v. Arturo Cayetano-jaimes

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that CR 43 gave the trial court discretion to permit testimony by telephone in a criminal case
• “A court does not violate a defendant’s constitutional rights when the materiality of an absent witness’s testimony is merely speculative or overwhelmed by uncontroverted evidence.”
• where it was error to exclude \important testimony from a person outside Cayetano-Jaimes's immediate family—testimony made more powerful because the witness was the victim's biological mother\
• under Jones, trial court erred in prohibiting important defense witnesses from testifying by telephone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).