Legal Opinion
Danforth v. Crist
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2010No. 05-3987PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYE, Circuit Judge.
Stephen Danforth was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct on March 16, 1996, and is currently serving a 316-month term of imprisonment. After several unsuccessful appeals and requests for postconviction relief in the Minnesota courts, Danforth sought habeas relief in federal district court. The district court 1 denied Danforth’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Danforth sought to appeal the denial of his petition and the district court granted a certificate of appealability solely on the issue of whether Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354,…
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