United States Ninth Circuit

Where a conclusion that appellant waived a Sixth Amendment claim was not based on a "clear, consistently applied, and well-established principle" of state law, the court must consider appellant's claim that the admission of a co-party's partially redacted statement, which implicated appellant in a murder, violated his right to confrontation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2002
• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• Before WARDLAW and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and JEREMY FOGEL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David H. Goodwin, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Byrne, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Steven E. Mercer, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.