Does a defendant have a right to confront and cross-examine witnesses via a phone call from a jailhouse telephone call?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Linares, B269256 (Cal. App. 2018):
Appellant argues that the jailhouse telephone calls should not have been admitted because they violated his right to confront and cross-examine witnesses under the Sixth Amendment as interpreted by Crawford v. Washington (2004) 541 U.S. 36, and its progeny. We find this argument unpersuasive.
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