Marion Dale Flewallen v. Gordon Faulkner

Petitioner-appellant, Marion Dale Flewallen, appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which raised only one ground for relief: that at his trial Petitioner was denied the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him ...” guaranteed by the sixth amendment. Specifically, Flewallen challenges the admission into evidence, over his vigorous objections at trial, of six prosecution witnesses’ out-of-court statements as part of the State’s case-in-chief. We affirm.

After a jury trial, Flewallen was convicted of the second degree murder of eighteen-month-old Erica…