{"id":33679,"date":"2020-10-12T07:02:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?p=33679"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:18:10","slug":"the-right-to-confrontation-in-an-era-of-videoconferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/the-right-to-confrontation-in-an-era-of-videoconferences\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Confrontation in an Era of Videoconferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33888 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences.jpg\" alt=\"The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences\" width=\"851\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Right-to-Confrontation-in-an-Era-of-Videoconferences-155x120.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/>Videoconferencing has skyrocketed in popularity because of the pandemic.\u00a0 Just check Zoom\u2019s stock.\u00a0 Seemingly overnight, what used to be an irregular method of business communication has become commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>Courts have embraced the craze, frequently holding hearings and other meetings by video.\u00a0 But there are limits to what a court can permissibly accomplish by video.\u00a0 While some observers have suggested videoconferencing is a potential solution to the problem of requiring live, in-person testimony during a pandemic spread by airborne particles, the Supreme Court of Michigan held in a recent criminal appeal that \u201ctwo-way, interactive video testimony violated the defendant\u2019s Confrontation Clause rights.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>U.S. Supreme Court Precedent on the Confrontation Clause<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/the-right-to-confrontation-in-an-era-of-videoconferences\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading The Right to Confrontation in an Era of Videoconferences\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videoconferencing has skyrocketed in popularity because of the pandemic.\u00a0 Just check Zoom\u2019s stock.\u00a0 Seemingly overnight, what used to be an irregular method of business communication has become commonplace. Courts have embraced the craze, frequently holding hearings and other meetings by video.\u00a0 But there are limits to what a court can permissibly accomplish by video.\u00a0 While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-collar-and-federal-criminal-defense"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Right to Confrontation in an Era of Videoconferences &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; October 12, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Videoconferencing has skyrocketed in popularity because of the pandemic.\u00a0 Just check Zoom\u2019s stock.\u00a0 Seemingly overnight, what used to be an irregular &#8212; 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