California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Karkehabadi, G048533, G049581 (Cal. App. 2015):
True, the prosecution did not call each victim as a witness. However, as the Attorney General emphasizes, the court permitted some family members to testify about transactions victimizing other family members, because those other family members were either too old or infirm to travel to California for trial. In these cases, the testifying family member described the nontestifying family members' actions, but not their statements. Thus, there was no violation of defendant's Sixth Amendment rights. (See Crawford v. Washington (2004) 541 U.S. 36, 53-54, 68.)
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