COCKETT v. RAY

No. 02-15078.

333 F.3d 938 (2003)

Janice COCKETT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Howard RAY, Warden of the Central Oklahoma Correctional D.C. No. Facility; The Attorney General Of The State Of Hawaii; Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County Of Honolulu, State Of Hawaii, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Gierlach and Michael Jay Green, Honolulu, HI, for the petitioner-appellant.

Alexa D.M. Fujise, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Honolulu, HI, for the respondents-appellees.

Before: LEAVY, RYMER, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.


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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