Fenenbock v. Director of Corrections for CA, No. 11-15880 (9th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus, brought under 28 U.S.C. 2254. Petitioner's grounds for appeal pertained to the prosecution's primary witness, a minor named R.H. Petitioner argued that the trial court violated his rights when it denied him pretrial access to R.H. and then limited cross-examination of R.H. during the trial. The court held that petitioner had no absolute right to pretrial access to R.H.; no prosecutorial inference arose when an unrelated government agency acted in R.H.'s best interests; and the trial court's limitations on the length and content of cross-examination were permissible. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on August 30, 2012.
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