Court Opinion

ID: 9733099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:53:34.11721+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:38.412875
License: Public Domain

*429FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
In my view, the majority has accurately applied federal law to resolve a question raised under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States regarding the unavailability of declarants as a prerequisite to admission of out-of-court declarations of a co-conspirator. I write separately only to emphasize that the confrontation issue before us has not been raised in the context of state constitutional protection. The reliability of statéments of a co-conspirator is open to some question, 4 Wigmore, Evidence, § 1080a (Chadbourn rev. 1972), and I await the proper case where the question may be fully explored as a matter of state law.
NIX, C.J., and ZAPPALA, J., join this opinion.