Legal Opinion
Charles E. Stoner, Jr. v. Dewey Sowders, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1993No. 92-5544PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, Charles Stoner, now serving a 13-year sentence in Kentucky, seeks a writ of habeas corpus alleging that two constitutional errors were committed at his state trial. First, he contends that the state court denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses- against him by admitting videotaped depositions of two witnesses without a sufficient showing of their unavailability to give live testimony. The court allowed the witnesses to give the deposition at the local police station the day before the trial began, thereby avoiding giving live testimony and…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Idaho v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by56 opinions
- Eugene Williams Gall, Jr. v. Phil Parker, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2000
- Rodger Thornton v. Donald N. Snyder, Jr., Director, James M. Schomig, Warden, and Captain Josh J. ShettleworthCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2005
- Willie Brumley v. Curtis WingardCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
- United States v. Salvador Vargas Navarro Samuel Pasqual EdmondsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1999
- Henry Tague v. Thomas Richards and Attorney General of the State of IndianaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
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