United States Sixth Circuit

Where an accomplice's tape-recorded confession was the most compelling piece of evidence relied upon by the jury in appellant's murder trial, its allowance into evidence violated his Sixth Amendment rights under the Confrontation Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• Before SILER and COLE, Circuit Judges;  STAFFORD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David H. Bodiker (briefed), Siobhan R. O'Keeffe (argued and briefed), Public Defender's Office, Ohio Public Defender Commission, Columbus, OH, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stuart A. Cole, Asst. Attorney General (argued), Todd R. Marti, Stuart W. Harris, Office of the Attorney General Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, for Respondent-Appellee.