Key legal question
Whether refusal to hear E. as witness violated confrontation and fair-trial rights
Extracted holding
No violation: E.'s alleged burdening statements were not used by the appellate court, and the refusal to rehear his exculpatory version was permissible in anticipatory assessment.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the right to confront incriminating witnesses was not engaged because the appellate court did not rely on E.'s incriminating statement; the request to repeat already given exculpatory testimony did not create an enforceable entitlement, and the evidence request could be rejected as unnecessary.