Wilkins v. Timmerman-Cooper

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of the district court’s dismissal of petitioner-appellant Randolph Wilkins’s (“Wilkins”) petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district judge held that the use of videoconferencing at Wilkins’s parole revocation hearing did not violate his rights to due process and to confront his accuser and therefore did not violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.

For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court’s decision.

I

We rely upon the factual findings of the state appellate court on direct…