Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181209:13:05:00
Need to talk. okay, so the sixth amendment to the constitution says every defendant has a right to confront and cross examine the accuser against him. you can cross examine your accuser at trial. there's a document called forfeiter by wrongdoing. let's assume i commit a crime and there's one witness to the crime. that witness goes to the police station, picks me out in a line-up and testifies to the grand jury he saw me commit a crime. i then threaten that witness such that he refuses to come to trial and testify against me. so i then stand up and say, hey, i have a right to confront my accuse...