DANNER v. KENTUCKY

No. 97-2057.

525 U.S. 1010 (1998)

DANNER v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

November 16, 1998.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE SCALIA, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant "the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." In this case, the Kentucky Supreme Court deprived James Danner of that right in defending against a prosecution for raping and sodomizing his daughter, because the victim of the asserted crime, now 15 years of age, vaguely protested that she could not be near him...

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