United States Second Circuit

A police officers' testimony was hearsay containing an implicit accusation against petitioner, in violation of the Confrontation Clause, and a state court unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court precedent in denying petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2002
• Published 08/29/2002

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and GARAUFIS, District Judge .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence O. Kamin,Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Steven M. Monroe, Marsh & McLennan Companies, and Henry J. Kennedy, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, on the brief), New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant Thomas Ryan.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Hovani, Assistant District Attorney (James M. Catterson, Jr., District Attorney of Suffolk County, on the brief), Riverhead, NY, for Respondent-Appellee David Miller.