United States v. Shauntel Martin, Also Known as Boo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that serving a witness with a subpoena would be futile when they repeatedly refused to testify out of fear
• holding that the confrontation right in crimi- nal prosecutions does not apply to supervised release revoca- tion proceedings because they are not part of a criminal prosecution
• stating that a court should consider “the explanation the government offers of why live testimony is undesirable or impracticable”
• finding that the government had good cause not to produce the witness because the witness refused to testify out of fear of retaliation by defendant
• concluding there was good cause for absence of declarant who had refused to testify in related state charges, thereby indicating her unwillingness to testify at the revocation hearing
• noting that the government demonstrated the reliability of declarant’s statements regarding a sexual assault, in part because other witnesses said they observed injuries consistent with the declar-ant’s description of the sexual assault

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