United States Tenth Circuit

Where the district court erred in giving a presumption of correctness to the state court's harmless error analysis and in further assessing that analysis without a review of the state court record, denial of habeas relief vacated, and case remanded to the district court with instructions to address claim under the standard set forth in Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619, 637 (1993).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/23/2002
• Published 08/26/2002

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, SEYMOUR, EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, HARTZ, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Schoenburg of Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom, Schoenburg & Frye, LLP, Albuquerque, NM, for the Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia Gandert, Assistant Attorney General (Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General, with her on the brief), Santa Fe, NM, for Respondents-Appellees.