Legal Opinion
Likely v. Ruane
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 25, 2011No. 10-1262PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Supreme Court decisions foreclose this habeas corpus petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, which was correctly denied by the district court.
Petitioner, Ernest Likely, was convicted on May 17, 2002 in Massachusetts of distributing a controlled substance — cocaine — in violation of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94C, § 32A(c). On appeal, he argued it was error to admit evidence that the substance was cocaine on the ground that the admission at trial of the chemical certificate of analysis with an affidavit but without the testimony of the chemist violated his Confrontation Clause…
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- Lockyer v. AndradeSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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