United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of habeas corpus relief is reversed and remanded where: 1) the trial court denied petitioner's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights when during cross examination of a witness for the prosecution, it refused to allow evidence as to whether that witness lied under oath about being on probation and; 2) this error was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2008
• Decided 10/06/2008
• Published 10/06/2008

Judges

• Before:  WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kurt David Hermansen, Law Office of Kurt David Hermansen, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Garrett Beaumont, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California, San Diego, CA, for the respondent-appellee.