Legal Opinion
Charles Franklin Murdoch, Junior v. Roy A. Castro, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 5, 2004No. 02-55650PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:. Petitioner Charles Murdoch appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Murdoch challenges the district court’s decision that the California trial court’s attorney-client privilege ruling, which barred him from seeing or using a purportedly exculpatory letter written by a government witness to the witness’s lawyer, did not deprive him of his constitutional right to cross-examination guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause.
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We vacate the order of the…
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