United States Ninth Circuit

Habeas proceedings are remanded to determine whether the attorney-client privilege, which barred the defendant from seeing or using a purportedly exculpatory letter written by a government witness to the witness's lawyer, resulted in an unconstitutional denial of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/06/2004
• Decided 04/05/2004
• Published 04/05/2004

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FRIEDMAN , TROTT, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Seymour I. Amster,Law Offices of Seymour I. Amster, Van Nuys, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rama R. Maline, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.