Legal Opinion
Steven L. Brooks v. Larry Kincheloe
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 25, 1988No. 87-4018PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORRICK, Senior District Judge:
Steven L. Brooks, in custody in the State of Washington following his conviction of first degree murder, appeals pro se from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington denying his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition he claims that his rights under the Sixth Amendment were violated because the trial court admitted testimony from a jailhouse informant regarding Brooks’ murder confession. For the following reasons, we affirm the district court’s denial of the petition for writ of habeas…
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3Cited by26 opinions
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