Henry Adamson v. Ronald Cathel

OPINION OF THE COURT

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

Henry Adamson, a New Jersey prisoner convicted in 1998 of holding up a pool hall and robbing its patrons, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Adamson claims that his constitutional right to confront witnesses was violated when, at trial, the government introduced confessions of his alleged accomplices for the purpose of impeaching Adamson’s testimony that his own confession had been fabricated by a police officer. Because admission of the…