Campos v. Stone

ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

VINCE CHHAJBRIA, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

The habeas petitioner in this case, Primitivo Campos, was convicted in state court of molesting a child at the day care his wife ran in their home. Aside from the child victim’s testimony (which suffered from inconsistencies, was at times controverted by third party witnesses, and may have been influenced by a similar allegation her friend had recently made against a different person), the only evidence against Campos was an incriminating series of statements that investigators…