Timothy Reddy v. Phillip Coombe, Superintendent, of Eastern Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

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 Reddy’s felony murder conviction. Reddy v. Coombe, 846 F.2d 866 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 929, 109 S.Ct. 316, 102 L.Ed.2d 334…