State v. Duk Won Lee

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• concluding that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the unavailability of witnesses and, thus, the witnesses’ testimonies from a preliminary hearing were inadmissible under the confrontation clause
• finding that a permissive response to a request to search the defendant resulted only from “inherently coercive” circumstances that were “calculated to overbear [the defendant’s] will”
• “First, in conformance with the Framers’ preference for face to face confrontation, the [confrontation clause] establishes a rule of necessity. In the usual case (including cases where pri- or cross-examination has occurred

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