The Supreme Court took up a case Monday over gunfire in the Bronx that struck and killed a 2-year-old bystander. One suspect took a plea to a simple gun charge, and the state used that man’s testimony to convict another.
WASHINGTON (CN) One afternoon in April 2006, there was a street fight in the Bronx that ended with the death of a bystander, 2-year-old David Pacheco.
Fifteen years later, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the man convicted of that murder was wrongly denied the chance to confront a witness against him.
Per its custom, the court took up the case this morning without any comment one grant in a sea of denied cases but petitioner Darrell Hemphill notes that division among state courts on testimonial hearsay requires resolution in Washington.