JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 170963.

819 S.E.2d 425 (2018)

Dese Terrell JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. May , Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Katherine Quinlan Adelfio , Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

PRESENT: All the Justices.


In this appeal, we consider whether admitting hearsay evidence in a probation revocation proceeding violated Dese Terrell Johnson's ("Johnson") right to confront witnesses against him under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

I. Facts and Proceedings

In 2005, Johnson was...

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