Hall v. State

VEASEY, Chief Justice:

This case concerns two questions. The first is whether the introduction of a prior statement of a witness who is physically present for cross-examination, but has only a limited recall of the facts contained in his prior statement, violates the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution. The second is whether, when the State is using a guilty plea from a Delaware court to establish a prior predicate offense nec essary for habitual offender status, it must produce the text of that plea.

There was no violation of the Confrontation Clause here. First, the failure…