Legal Opinion
St. Luke Gregory, Jr. v. State of North Carolina Attorney General of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 4, 1990No. 89-7514PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, Chief Judge:
St. Luke Gregory, imprisoned by North Carolina for taking sexual advantage of his young daughter, brought this Section 2254 case challenging the admission of two hearsay statements identifying him as the assailant. Gregory argues that the statements were so untrustworthy as to have violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront his accuser. The district court agreed that statements the child made several months before the crimes occurred were too unreliable to support the conviction, and ordered relief in the form of a new trial. We affirm.
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A jury concluded that Gregory had…
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