COVID Masks Didn't Violate Cop's Trial Rights, 4th Circ. Says

By Emily Sawicki ( January 11, 2024, 6:24 PM EST) -- A former West Virginia police officer who was sentenced to nine years behind bars for assaulting an arrested man and lying to a court can't get his conviction overturned on the grounds that witnesses' mask wearing during his 2021 trial violated his Sixth Amendment rights, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday....

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