Sentence examples for right of confrontation from inspiring English sources
The right of confrontation may not be dispensed with so lightly.
Petitioner thus was denied his constitutional right of confrontation.' 391 U.S., at 127128, 88 S.Ct., at 1623.
See Graham, The Right of Confrontation and the Hearsay Rule: Sir Walter Raleigh Loses Another One, 8 Crim.L.Bull.
The right of confrontation may not be dispensed with so lightly.' 390 U.S., at 723725, 88 S.Ct., at 1321 (footnotes omitted).
He also argued that the report was not intended to be used as evidence against the defendant, so there was no right of confrontation involved.
The Supreme Court ruled last year that the 2004 decision on the right of confrontation, Crawford v. Washington, was not retroactive.
That is one setting where the question arises whether the accused has rights of confrontation that the law invades at its peril.
But, as this case shows, much of the supposed saving is lost through protracted litigation that results from the impingement or near impingement on a codefendant's rights of confrontation and equal protection.
In United States v. Plattner, 330 F.2d 271, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit emphasized that the Sixth Amendment grants the accused the rights of confrontation, of compulsory process for witnesses in his favor, and of assistance of counsel as minimum procedural requirements in federal criminal prosecutions.
Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, for example, discusses at length how to achieve the right amount of confrontation for ultimate team effectiveness — and concludes that fear of conflict is one of the five major barriers to success.
Respondent does suggest that the prosecutor's statements may have deprived him of the right to confrontation.
