Watson v. Greene, No. 10-307 (2d Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseRespondents appealed the district court's grant of habeas relief to petitioner where petitioner had been convicted of first-degree murder. At issue was whether the trial court abused its discretion by precluding defense counsel from cross-examining a witness about a document that contained multiple hearsay. The court held that the trial court's preclusion of cross-examination on the document was not so clearly an abuse of its broad discretion, to balance the probative and prejudicial aspects of potential cross-examination, that the state appellate court's failure to find such an abuse of discretion was an unreasonable application of clearly established law. Therefore, the court reversed the district court's grant of habeas corpus.
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