Questão jurídica principal
Whether Y.'s police statement could be used without prior judicial confrontation
Decisão extraída
The use of Y.'s statement was permissible because the authorities were not responsible for the impossibility of confrontation after his death, and the conviction did not rest solely on that statement.
Fundamentação extraída
The witness had died before judicial examination; the file showed a lengthy but not blameworthy police investigation. His statement had only supplementary weight among several evidentiary sources.