Commonwealth v. Willis

What the majority of this Court has wrought in this case is the substantial watering down of one of our most traditional constitutional protections afforded our citizens — the right of an accused at his criminal trial to have a personal confrontation, before a jury of his peers, with his accuser. The majority has put the imprimatur of this Court on a new revision of the rule which says that the right of confrontation is no longer “face to face”, but is rather, “face— to television screen — to face”.

Because of occasional problems with the testimony of alleged young victims in child abuse…