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GREGORY v. STATE OF N.C.

No. 89-7514.

900 F.2d 705 (1990)

St. Luke GREGORY, Jr., Petitioner-Appellee, v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA; Attorney General of North Carolina, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Norwood League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., on brief, Raleigh, N.C., for appellants.

James Riley Parish, Parish, Cooke & Russ, Fayetteville, N.C., for appellee.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

St. Luke Gregory, imprisoned by North Carolina for taking sexual advantage of his young daughter, brought this Section 2254 case challenging the admission of two hearsay statements identifying him as the assailant. Gregory argues that the statements were so untrustworthy as to have violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront his accuser. The district court agreed that statements the child made several months before the crimes occurred were too...

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