This case presents the following questions:

1. Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court's denial of cross-examination into an accomplice's confession, where the prosecution introduced the confession, where the confession implicates other co-conspirators, and where the inquiry would fairly rebut the inference that the defendant participated in a double murder?

2. There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether appellate courts should review violations of the Confrontation Clause de novo or for abuse of discretion?

Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a denial of cross-examination into an accomplice's confession