Legal Opinion
Roy Kenneth Sparks v. Dewey Sowders, Warden, Northpoint Training Center
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 4, 1988No. 87-5749PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner, Roy Kenneth Sparks, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the following reasons, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and REMAND for an evidentiary hearing.
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Petitioner was charged with murder and first degree robbery by a Carter County grand jury in the commonwealth of Kentucky. The case went to trial in March of 1984. After three days of trial, during which the commonwealth introduced a tape recording of petitioner discussing his participation in the murder in…
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