Topic: a defendant must be considered absent whenever his location… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 10 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Williams.

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1 People v. Williams Anchor
nyappdiv · 2016
green “a defendant must be considered absent whenever his location is unknown and he is attempting to avoid apprehension or prosecution, or his location cannot be determined by due diligence” 4
2 People v. Smart
ny · 2014
green “it has been shown that the defendant procured the witness's unavailability through violence, threats, or chicanery” 3
3 People v. Spears
nyappdiv · 2015
green “the people supplied the necessary proof through circumstantial evidence, i.e., eyewitness testimony and surrounding circumstances” 3

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