Raymond Wright v. William Dallman, Warden

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Warden William Dallman appeals from the district court’s grant of a conditional writ of habeas corpus ordering that inmate Raymond Wright be retried within 90 days on state charges of rape and felonious penetration or discharged from custody on those charges. Dallman challenges the district court’s finding that in limiting Wright’s cross-examination of witness Charles Render, the state trial court denied Wright his Sixth Amendment right to confront witness Render.

We shall reverse.

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Wright is an inmate at the Lebanon Correctional Institution in Lebanon, Ohio. He brought a…