Legal Opinion
Kentucky v. Stincer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 19, 1987No. 86-572PublishedCited by 1,266 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
The question presented in this case is whether the exclusion of a defendant from a hearing held to determine the competency of two child witnesses to testify violates the defendant’s rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Respondent Sergio Stincer was indicted in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Ky., and charged with committing first-degree sodomy with T. G., an 8-year-old girl, N. G., a 7-year-old girl, and B. H., a 5-year-old boy, in violation of Ky. Rev. Stat. §510.070 (1985). After a jury was sworn, but…
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