Legal Opinion
Woodward v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 17, 2001No. 00-2093PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
David Woodward was convicted of murdering his wife. The district court denied bis petition for a writ of habeas corpus. There are two issues raised in this appeal. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.
Woodward challenges, under the Confrontation Clause, the trial court’s admission of hearsay testimony from two witnesses that, before she was murdered, Woodward’s wife told them, “He [Woodward] is going to kill me.” The New Mexico Supreme Court found that these statements were excited utterances. The federal habeas court held they were not…
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