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> I was under the impression we often allowed anonymous testimony in courts for criminal trials We specifically do not. The 6th Amendment: "...to be confronted
by breck 4y ago
> I was under the impression we often allowed anonymous testimony in courts for criminal trials
We specifically do not. The 6th Amendment: "...to be confronted with the witnesses against him"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right_to_confront_witness https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right_to_confront_witness
- noirbot 4y agoSure, and plenty of constitutional rights have exceptions with balancing tests. You can't say literally anything under the first amendment, you can't own literally anything that could be used as "arms" under the second, the definition of "due process" is regularly in question when it comes to the fifth amendment and has been a basis of plenty of expansive rulings outside of what you may think is a reasonable part of the amendment. I was perhaps over-stating when I said "often", but it's not patently absurd that there could be an accepted exception in this case.