Young v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

The ultimate question before us is whether the trial judge had sufficient reason to revoke the probation of appellant (Young) based on evidence that he had murdered his grandmother (a crime for which he had not been tried). In the course of answering this question, we must answer two others: (1) Does the Supreme Court’s decision in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), preclude consideration at a probation revocation hearing of an unavailable codefendant’s custodial statement to police impheating the probationer in a-crime; and…