State v. Henderson

OPINION

VIGIL, Judge.

{1} This case requires us to determine whether the admission of preliminary hearing testimony of an unavailable witness at Defendant’s trial violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), and whether Defendant was entitled to a mistrial when a witness invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege before the jury during his testimony. We hold that Defendant was afforded his Confrontation Clause rights and that no abuse of discretion was committed in denying his motion for a mistrial. The…