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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