Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks that covered the majority of their faces when the court did not make any findings supporting their use or consider less obtrusive alternatives. Whether a _ criminal defendant’s seventeen-month incarceration before trial, during which he lived in a constant fear of contracting COVID-19 and was brutally assaulted, violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial.