Eastham v. Johnson

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DeMASCIO, District Judge.

Petitioner, David Eastham, was sentenced to a term in the State Prison for Southern Michigan at Jackson for the crime of uttering and publishing. He exhausted his state remedies and then brought this Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging deprivation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, petitioner alleges he was denied his right of confrontation.

At petitioner’s preliminary examination, 1 a witness, Linda Wilkins, testified that she cashed stolen checks on which the petitioner had typed her name. She further…