against the witnesses’ right to personal safety, we conclude that the witnesses’ safety in this case outweighs the defendants’ confrontation right. Here, the threat to the witnesses’ safety is emphasized by the fact that the State found it necessary to place them under witness protection and the district court found it necessary to delay disclosure of the witnesses’ identities until they had been placed under witness protection. Moreover, it is important in this ease that the defendants’ right of confrontation has been accommodated because the prosecution has made the witnesses’ former addresses and telephone numbers available to the defendants, thereby making the witnesses’ current addresses and telephone numbers unnecessary. See United States v. Baker, 419 F.2d 83 (2d Cir.1969) (<HOLDING>); People v. Turley, 870 P.2d 498
holding that testimonial hearsay statements of a witness who does not appear at trial are inadmissible under the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment unless the witness is unavailable to testify and the defendant has had a prior opportunity to crossexamine the witness holding that the defendants due process rights were violated when the trial judge singled out the only defense witness and indicated to that witness that he expected the witness to he and would personally ensure that the witness was prosecuted for perjury and thereby effectively drove that witness off the stand holding that the trial courts admonition of a witness even though detailed and strongly stated did not coerce the witness because the court did not threaten or badger the witness and the court provided the witness with her own counsel to ensure that the decision was voluntary holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in upholding witness refusal to disclose place of employment noting that defendant had obtained information regarding witness background that enabled defense counsel to crossexamine witness fully and effectively without the employment information holding that accused has right to crossexamine witness on issue of a witness potential bias that stemmed from the fact that the witness had instituted a civil action for damages against the defendant arising from the crime charged