Legal Opinion
Baker v. McNeil
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided March 31, 2010No. Case 4:06cv514-RH/AKPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
ROBERT L. HINKLE, District Judge.
By petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Willie Baker challenges his Florida state-court conviction for committing a sexual act with a 15-year-old girl. The trial court denied Mr. Baker’s federal constitutional right to effectively cross-examine the girl by showing that she had falsely accused others of having sex with her, as she admitted during a contemporaneous proffer. The state appellate court ruled the error harmless. It was not. This order grants the petition.
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