Ephen Whelchel v. State of Washington, Tana Wood v. Stephen C. Whelchel, Cross-Appellee

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

The State of Washington (“Washington”) appeals the district court’s grant of habeas corpus relief to Stephen Whelchel (‘Whelchel”) who was convicted in state court of first-degree murder. Whelchel claims that several constitutional errors made during his trial mandate relief: (1) the violation of his Confrontation Clause rights by the admission of tape-recorded statements made by a pair of unavailable co-defendants implicating him in the murder; (2) the violation of his Confrontation Clause rights by the admission of a videotaped deposition of a witness…