United States Second Circuit

While closed-circuit televising of child's testimony in sexual abuse and rape case did not violate petitioner's rights under the Confrontation Clause, his trial attorney's cumulative errors were prejudicial and amounted to constitutional ineffectiveness of counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2001
• Published 01/05/2001

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge:, Before: JACOBS, STRAUB, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Colleen P. Cassidy, The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Division, Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, for petitioner-appellee., Michael Blakey, Assistant District Attorney, Riverhead, NY, (James M. Catterson, Jr., District Attorney of Suffolk County), for respondent-appellant.