Supreme Court takes case of testimony by video

The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a defendant's right to confront a witness was violated when two out-of-town witnesses testified by video in a Kent County trial. The state appeals court in January threw out the sexual-assault conviction of James Buie. He said it "didn't feel right' to have witnesses testify from outside the courtroom. The witnesses were experts who were in Detroit and Virginia. Buie's defense attorney agreed to their appearance by live video because she still could cross-examine them.