MURDOCH v. CASTRO

No. 02-55650.

365 F.3d 699 (2004)

Charles Franklin MURDOCH, Junior, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Roy A. CASTRO, Warden; Attorney General of the State of California, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour I. Amster, Law Offices of Seymour I. Amster, Van Nuys, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.

Rama R. Maline, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.

Before: FRIEDMAN, TROTT, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.


TROTT, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Charles Murdoch appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Murdoch challenges the district court's decision that the California trial court's attorney-client privilege ruling, which barred him from seeing or using a purportedly exculpatory letter written by a government witness to the witness's lawyer, did not deprive him of his constitutional right to cross-examination guaranteed...

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