Testigos no disponibles y confrontación: fundamentos epistémicos y no epistémicos
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The author criticizes an extended thesis on the right of confrontation, according to which
the lack of an opportunity to cross-examine a prosecution witness unavailable for trial would preclude the admission of the prior statement. Epistemic arguments are analyzed in the first place,
but the paper´s central contribution deals with non-epistemic reasons underlying confrontation
right. In this context, the paper advances reasons for being skeptical about free-standing evidencial
rights. Then, it develops an analysis about the ways in which confrontation has been theorized
from a non-epistemic perspective. The author concludes that these theoretical proposals are not
sufficiently compelling to support a strong confrontation right