Wasko v. Dugger

MEMORANDUM ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

NESBITT, District Judge.

Edward Wasko, a state prisoner presently serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition presents the question of whether a defendant’s sixth amendment right to confront the witnesses against him is violated if he is forbidden from inquiring into the terms of a plea agreement between the state and a cooperating accomplice who is called by the defendant to testify as an adverse witness and whose credibility is impeached by other means. Finding that…