United States Fourth Circuit

Admission of various hearsay statements during a murder trial was neither contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, clearly established U.S. Supreme Court precedent, under the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/22/2002
• Published 11/22/2002

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Lyle Joseph Yurko, Yurko & Owens, P.A., Charlotte, North Carolina;  Michael Smith Scofield, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Clarence Joe DelForge, III, Assistant Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Thomas M. Dawson, Leavenworth, Kansas, for Appellant.  Roy Cooper, Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.