State v. Fisher

¶1 A jury found Kisha Fisher and Corey Trosclair guilty of first degree murder.1 Trosclair and Fisher appeal their convictions. In the published portion of the opinion, we hold that Trosclair’s rights under the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution were violated because the redactions in a nontestifying codefendant’s statements were insufficient under current confrontation clause jurisprudence. But we hold further that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Therefore, although the trial court should have severed Trosclair’s case from…