Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140522:15:39:00
The witness is permanently unavailable, they still have to have some reliability like a court hearing. here it was a preliminary hearing, and the defense lawyer had a crack at the -- >> did he? that was something i didn't think. >> yeah. >> the way they'll get around it is if defense attorney had the opportunity to cross-examine, were you drunk, were you sober, where were you standing, this is all in the judge's discretion. not black and white. the judge can still say i'm not comfortable. the jury isn't here to see the cross-examination. so the judge has a lot of -- >> right. the other really ...
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