David Watkins Harker v. State of Maryland

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Mervyn Thompson was shot by a man who had identified himself as “Mr. Palmer.” Thompson described his assailant to the police, and some weeks later was hypnotized in the hope that he would recall more details of the shooting. At a show-up a few days after the hypnosis session, Thompson identified his assailant as a man named David Harker. Harker was convicted of assault with intent to murder by a Maryland jury, and later filed a petition for habeas corpus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

We affirm the district court’s denial of Harker’s petition. Testimony by a witness who has…