{"id":6481,"date":"2022-03-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:10:48","slug":"appearance-by-video-violated-confrontation-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6481","title":{"rendered":"Appearance by Video Violated Confrontation Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Confrontation Clauses protect the right of an accused, including a juvenile, to confront State\u2019s witnesses face-to-face. Orders of the Supreme Court and circuit court, addressing procedure during COVID-19 pandemic, barred in-person appearances only as otherwise allowed by law. Those provisions require \u201cwitness-specific findings\u201d on \u201can enhanced risk associated with COVID-19 [,]\u201d to restrict the appearance of appellant to remote means. In appellant juvenile\u2019s adjudication hearing, the circuit court made no such findings as to danger, and the risk of transmitting COVID-19 from the juvenile detention facility was not so great as to bar appellant\u2019s trial counsel, after a visit to that facility, from a personal appearance in \u201cthe courtroom with the circuit judge, the circuit judge&#8217;s staff, [appellant]&#8217;s parents, the juvenile officer, a deputy juvenile officer, a victim services representative, and all the witnesses.\u201d \u201cProperly preserved confrontation clause violations are presumed prejudicial.\u201d Judgment vacated and remanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/video-chat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/video-chat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6482\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=183378\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In the Interest of: J.A.T., Appellant, vs. Jackson County Juvenile Office, Respondent.<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=183384\" target=\"_blank\">(Overview Summary)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Supreme Court of Missouri &#8211; SC99251\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re interested in speaking with an attorney, call our office at 816-524-4949 or click <a href=\"http:\/\/calendly.com\/hoorfarlaw\">here <\/a>to schedule a consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confrontation Clauses protect the right of an accused, including a juvenile, to confront State\u2019s witnesses face-to-face. Orders of the Supreme Court and circuit court, addressing procedure during COVID-19 pandemic, barred in-person appearances only as otherwise allowed by law. Those provisions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6481\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}