Legal Opinion
Lonnie K. Stephens v. Charles B. Miller, Warden, and Attorney General of the State of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 1994No. 91-1690PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
This ease requires us to decide whether Lonnie K. Stephens was deprived of his constitutional right to testify when an Indiana court applied Indiana’s Rape Shield Statute to exclude at trial certain statements that Stephens claims he made during the events that led to his conviction. Stephens was convicted of attempted rape and the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction. Stephens v. State, 544 N.E.2d 137 (Ind.1989). Stephens filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the federal district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied his petition.…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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3Cited by118 opinions
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