State v. Fuller

COUCH, Judge.

This appeal relates to the admissibility of hearsay at a probation revocation proceeding. We shall here hold that a respondent in a probation revocation hearing enjoys the right of confrontation of witnesses guaranteed to defendants in criminal proceedings, unless the State demonstrates good cause for dispensing with confrontation, and the trial judge makes a specific finding of good cause stated in the record of the revocation proceeding.

Respondent Solomon Fuller was convicted, in separate trials, of several counts of theft. In the first case, Case No. 8836, Fuller received a…