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REDDY v. COOMBE

No. 17, Docket 90-2079.

916 F.2d 47 (1990)

Timothy REDDY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Phillip COOMBE, Superintendent, of Eastern Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henriette D. Hoffman, The Legal Aid Soc., Federal Defender Services Unit, New York City, for petitioner-appellee.

David J. Mudd, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, Marc Frazier Scholl, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Before KAUFMAN, WINTER and MINER, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The right to confront and cross-examine witnesses at a trial has long been recognized as essential to the determination of truth. These safeguards, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, are fundamental to advancing our society's goal of a criminal justice system in which the reality as well as the perception of fairness prevails.

With these principles in mind, this Court considers, for the second time, the propriety of Timothy...

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