United States Second Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's habeas petition is affirmed where the state court's admission of hearsay statements made by the murder victim just before his death was not a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2005
• Published 01/19/2005

Judges

• LEVAL, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL, LEVAL, and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randall D. Unger, Bayside, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Amy Appelbaum, Assistant District Attorney (Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Leonard Joblove, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), Kings County Office of the District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY, for Respondent-Appellee.