Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Melvin Haywood v. Dennis Wolff, Warden, Joliet Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 1981No. 80-1565PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court, 490 F.Supp. 1154, granting an Illinois state prisoner’s petition for habeas corpus and ordering his retrial or release from custody within 120 days.1 The principal issue presented is whether the introduction at trial of the preliminary hearing testimony of a deceased witness denied petitioner his constitutional right to confront the witnesses against him. We hold that it did not.
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