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CHEEK v. BATES

No. 79-1373.

615 F.2d 559 (1980)

Dorothy CHEEK, Petitioner, Appellee, v. John BATES, Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Potters, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., and Stephen R. Delinsky, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for respondent, appellant.

James M. Hughes, Hingham, Mass., by appointment of the Court, with whom Devin & Drohan, P. C., Hingham, Mass., was on brief, for petitioner, appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

The appellee, Dorothy Cheek, was convicted in Massachusetts Superior Court of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. On direct appeal, Cheek argued that she had been denied her Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against her when the trial judge refused to allow a question by her counsel attempting to probe the bias of one of the prosecution's chief witnesses. The Massachusetts...

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