HOOVER v. STATE OF MD.

No. 83-6022.

714 F.2d 301 (1983)

Glenn Edward HOOVER, # 131-295, Appellee, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmina Szunyog, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Stephen Rosenbaum, Philip M. Andrews, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Jon H. Grube, Baltimore, Md. (Smith, Somerville & Case, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before HALL and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and TURK, District Judge.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

After exhausting his state remedies, Glenn Edward Hoover, a Maryland prisoner convicted of second degree murder, sought a federal writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court found that the state trial judge had abridged Hoover's fourteenth amendment right to confront adverse witnesses by limiting cross-examination of a key prosecution witness. The district court further concluded that

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