Legal Opinion
Daniel Gonzales v. Michael Stainer
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 8, 2013No. 09-56917UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM *
California prisoner Daniel R. Gonzales appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. He contends that the admission of certain statements at his trial violated the Confrontation Clause. The relevant state court decision applied harmless-error analysis to three instances of hearsay: (1) statements made by an eyewitness, Yesenia Simon, to a police officer; (2) statements made by Gonzales’s aunt, Teresa Garcia, used as the basis for a hypothetical posed to an expert; and (3) the aunt’s statements repeated to her by' the prosecutor while she invoked the Fifth…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Gonzales v. StainerSupreme Court of the United States · 2013