to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 14 of the New Mexico Constitution guarantee a criminal defendant the right to be present at his trial and to confront the witnesses against him face-to-face. Maryland v. Craig, 497 U.S. 836, 844, 110 S.Ct. 3157, 3162, 111 L.Ed.2d 666 (1990); State v. Rodriguez, 114 N.M. 265, 267, 837 P.2d 459, 461 (Ct.App.1992). The rights that the Confrontation Clause confers, however, are not absolute. Craig, 497 U.S. at 844, 110 S.Ct. at 3162. The defendant does not have an absolute right to be present and to confront witnesses against him, and his counsel may be restricted in his interrogation of those witnesses when there is a fair and reasonable substitute therefor. See State v. Taylor, 103 N.M. 189, 195, 704 P.2d 443, 449 (Ct.App.1985) (<HOLDING>); But see Rodriguez, 114 N.M. at 267, 837 P.2d
holding that the confrontation clause does not apply to the sentencing hearing holding that doctrine does not violate right of confrontation holding that despite district courts restriction on crossexamination of government witness concerning the sentencing benefits he would earn through testifying for the government it did not violate defendants confrontation rights because of defense counsels effective impeachment of the government witnesses credibility and sentence reduction holding that hearsay argument for admission of evidence did not preserve confrontation clause challenge on appeal argument could have referred either to rules of evidence or confrontation clause but failed to identify confrontation clause as basis and thus did not put trial court on notice of issue holding that defendants absence from and defense counsels restriction to written questions in hearing on competency of child complainant did not violate confrontation clause