Skyers v. United States

KING, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of two counts of kidnaping 1 and associated offenses. 2 On appeal, he raises only one 3 claim that requires more than summary consideration: whether the admission at trial of the prior recorded testimony of a deceased witness at a bail hearing was a violation of the hearsay rule. We affirm.

Appellant and his co-defendant, Mannie Harris, kidnaped two women, Tyieast Gross and Katrina Drayton, two days before they were scheduled to testify at the murder trial of appellant’s brother, Desmond Skyers. The two women were eyewitnesses to the killing. Four…