Roger Everett Smith, III v. United States
Immigration
Whether the mailing of form letters addressed to three material witnesses in three small villages in Mexico approximately two weeks before trial amounts to a 'good-faith effort to procure witnesses' so as to comport with the Confrontation Clause to the Sixth Amendment before resorting to deposition testimony
Questions Presented For Review L Whether the mailing of form letters addressed to three material witnesses in three small villages in Mexico approximately two weeks before trial amounts to a “good-faith effort to procure witnesses” so as to comport with the Confrontation Clause to the Sixth Amendment before resorting to deposition testimony. II. | Whether there was sufficient evidence of alienage in this alien transporting case where the Government failed to ask all three material witnesses if they were United States citizens, asking instead if they were citizens of Mexico, as if the two things were mutually exclusive. 2