Legal Opinion
United States v. Taveras
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 19, 2004No. 03-2140PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Jimmy Taveras challenges the district court’s revocation of his supervised release without giving him the opportunity to confront the complaining witness whose account of an alleged violation of state law was the basis of the court’s revocation decision. Instead, the court relied on Tav-eras’s probation officer to present a hearsay account of the alleged violation. Concluding that the reliance by the district court on this second-hand account violated Taveras’s confrontation rights under Rule 32.1(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, we vacate the…
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