Whether the admission into evidence of hearsay statements violated petitioner's Confrontation Clause rights

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the admission into evidence, through the testimony of decedent’s 10-year-old daughter, of hearsay statements allegedly made by the decedent to the father of her children during a phone call to which the daughter was not privy, violated petitioner’s Confrontation Clause rights where the statements were introduced for their truth and the jury was not given an adverse missing witness instruction as to the father, who was present at the courthouse and could have testified. i TABLE OF APPENDICES