SNYDER v. COINER

No. 73-2367.

510 F.2d 224 (1975)

Clyde SNYDER, Appellant, v. Ira M. COINER, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 7, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Gould, Bowie, Md., for appellant.

David P. Cleek, Asst. Atty. Gen. of W. Va. (Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen. of W. Va., Richard E. Hardison, Deputy Atty. Gen. of W. Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, CRAVEN and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner, a state prisoner convicted of rape, seeks federal habeas relief, after exhausting state post-conviction remedies. The District Court denied relief and we affirm.

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The primary claim of error, asserted by the petitioner, concerns the limitation placed by the trial court on the cross-examination of a prosecution witness. The defense sought to establish by cross-examination of the witness that five years...

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