Mitchell Lowery v. James Collins, Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from the federal district court’s adverse habeas corpus ruling, Petitioner-Appellant Mitchell Lowery asserts that the court erred in denying him relief. Lowery insists that — in a state criminal case in which he was convicted of sexual assault of a minor — the State’s introduction of a videotape of an interview of the child-complainant conducted by a social worker violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him, 1 and that the error was harmful beyond a reasonable doubt under Chapman v. California. 2 Concluding that the…