A man who spent 13 years in jail on an armed-robbery conviction that he alleges was based on perjured, out-of-court statements by accomplices convinced a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to grant a writ of habeas corpus on Sixth Amendment grounds.
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Henry Adamson’s right to confront adverse witnesses was violated by admission of those statements without a limiting instruction to jurors.
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