Legal Opinion
Joseph Anthony Padilla v. Cal A. Terhune
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 29, 2002No. 01-56325PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.
Joseph Anthony Padilla appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We must decide whether the admission of hearsay evidence admitted at his trial for murder violated the Confrontation Clause and, if it did, whether the error was harmless.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On the evening of July 27, 1994, Erik Gorka, the victim of the murder, cashed his paycheck for $425.57 near his Ocean Beach home. Two days later his body was found in an alley in Ocean Beach. -He died at the hospital…
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