Confrontation Clause

By: Derek Hawkins//April 12, 2017//

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WI Supreme Court

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Glenn T. Zamzow

Case No.: 2017 WI 29

Focus: Confrontation Clause

We review a published opinion of the court of appeals,1 which determined that use of a deceased police officer’s recorded statements at a suppression hearing did not violate Glenn T. Zamzow’s rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We hold that the Confrontation Clause protects a defendant’s right to confrontation at trial but not at suppression hearings, and admission of the deceased officer’s recorded statements during the suppression hearing did not deprive Zamzow of due process. We therefore affirm.

Concur:

Dissent: Abrahamson, Bradley

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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