Legal Opinion
Yohn v. Love
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 9, 1996No. 95-1412UnknownCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania brings this appeal from an order of the district court granting a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed by David Lee Yohn, a state prisoner currently incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Huntington, Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth contends that Yohn is not entitled to habeas relief because no constitutional error occurred when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania became involved in a trial court ruling on the admissibility of evidence.
We find that the district court did not err…
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- Yohn v. LoveCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1996