However, should such a trial ever take place, I reserve the right to confront my accusers, not their affidavits or depositions.
The Constitution gives defendants in criminal cases the right to confront their accusers through cross-examination.
To penalize someone without giving him a chance to confront his accusers goes against fundamental American ideas of fairness.
Civil liberties groups argue that the bill would violate the constitutional right to confront one's accusers.
Making matters worse, Osipow said, the team had never had the chance to confront its accusers.
No one can be held in prison for years without knowing exactly what the accusations are, without having a chance to confront his accusers.
Strafford came in person to confront his accusers, but was ordered to withdraw and taken into custody.
Two cases posing the difficult questions about the right of criminal defendants to confront their accusers were argued in April.
Except in cases involving children under 10, the law gives defendants the right to confront their accusers.
Even your culture, surely, supports the right to directly confront one's accusers when accusations so unbearable are made!