Legal Opinion
Jones v. Cain
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 16, 2010No. 09-30174PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
Finding that a state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law by holding that no Sixth Amendment violation occurred when a jury heard recorded testimony from a deceased witness to a murder, the district court granted the defendant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the grant of the writ but vacate the portion of the order requiring the State to dismiss the underlying indictment if it fails to retry the defendant within 120 days.
FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
A. Factual Background
In November 2001, a jury convicted Terrance Jones of…
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