Admission of a codefendants videotaped statements does not violate the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses. While questioning whether Crawford v. Washington (2004) 124 S.Ct. 1354 could apply to cases with final judgments, the California Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment was not implicated where the testimonial statements were admitted to give meaning to the defendants own silence in response to them, i.e., to support the defendants adoptive admissions.
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