Legal Opinion
Raymond Morgan Hardy v. John P. Wigginton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 29, 1990No. 89-5749PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Raymond Morgan Hardy, was convicted in 1985 of first-degree sodomy in the Circuit Court of Graves County, Kentucky. He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in December 1988, complaining that his sixth amendment right to confrontation was violated at trial. The district court denied the petition, and this appeal followed. Finding Hardy's arguments to be without merit, we affirm the decision of the district court.
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The petitioner was convicted, after a jury-trial, of sodomizing his six-year-old daughter. The victim was the principal witness against…
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