LEAVY, Circuit Judge:
Hawaii state prisoner Janice Cockett ("Cockett") appeals the district court's dismissal of her federal habeas corpus petition as limited by 28 U.S.C. § 2254 which challenged her 1995 conviction for the murder of her husband, Frank Cockett. The district court dismissed Cockett's Confrontation Clause claim and claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as procedurally defaulted because it found that the Hawaii Supreme Court had relied...
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