Legal Opinion
David B. Foster v. Robert O. Barbour
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 14, 1980No. 79-6013PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge.
North Carolina appeals an order of the district court granting a writ of habeas corpus to David B. Foster who had been convicted of first degree felony murder, i. e. homicide in the course of a robbery of a store, and whose conviction had been affirmed on appeal. State v. Foster, 293 N.C. 674, 239 S.E.2d 449 (1977). The district court ruled that the repeated cross-examination of Foster about crimes for which he was neither tried nor convicted denied him due process of law. The court held in the alternative that the application to Foster’s sentence of the decision in…
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- State v. CrossSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1973
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3Cited by13 opinions
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