Does a defendant have a right to confront the witnesses against him?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mason v. Scully, 16 F.3d 38 (2nd Cir. 1994):
A defendant's right to confront the witnesses against him includes the right not to have the incriminating hearsay statement of a nontestifying codefendant admitted in evidence against him. Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 137, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 1628, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968) ("Bruton ").
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