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GILES v. CALIFORNIA

No. 07-6053.

128 S.Ct. 2678 (2008)

554 U.S. 353

171 L.Ed.2d 488

Dwayne GILES, Petitioner, v. CALIFORNIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marilyn G. Burkhardt, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.

Donald E. De Nicola, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

Samuel Estreicher, New York, NY, James F. Flanagan, Columbia, SC, Marilyn G. Burkhardt, Los Angeles, CA, Donald B. Ayer, Meir Feder, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kristofer Jorstad, Deputy Attorney General, Donald E. DeNicola, Deputy State Solicitor General, Los Angeles, California, for Respondent.

We consider whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when a judge determines that a wrongful act by the defendant made the witness unavailable to testify at trial.

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On September 29, 2002, petitioner Dwayne...

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