Keith Lee v. Brian Foster

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Keith Lee filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The district court denied the petition, but certified three issues for appeal: (1) whether an in-court identification of Lee violated his rights to due process; (2) whether an adequate and independent state ground precluded consideration of Lee’s claim for ineffective assistance of counsel; and (3) whether admission of an out-of-court statement at trial violated his *690Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses. We affirm.

I. Background

Lee was…