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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARIO AARON NEWSOME,

Petitioner,

CASE NO. 05cv1534-IEG(RBB)

Order Granting in Part Petitioner’s

Motion for a Certificate of

Appealability 

vs.

STUART RYAN, Warden,

Respondent.

Petitioner Mario Aaron Newsome, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a notice of

appeal and request for certification of appealability.

A certificate of appealability is authorized “if the applicant has made a substantial showing

of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). When a petitioner’s claims have

been denied on their merits, as here, a petitioner can meet the threshold “substantial showing of the

denial of a constitutional right,” by demonstrating that: (1) the issues are debatable among jurists

of reason; or (2) that a court could resolve the issues in a different manner; or (3) that the questions

are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further. Lambright v. Stewart, 220 F.3d 1022,

1024-25 (9th Cir. 2000), citing Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000). 

Upon review, the Court GRANTS Petitioner a certificate of appealability as to his first and

seventh claims for relief, that the trial court violated his confrontation rights under the Sixth

Amendment when it allowed the prosecution to cross-examine several witnesses with their prior

statements made to police investigators and recorded in their reports and that the trial court

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erroneously admitted hearsay statements of witness Randy Smith. As to Petitioner’s remaining

claims, the Court DENIES the request for a certificate of appealability.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: August 3, 2007

IRMA E. GONZALEZ, Chief Judge

United States District Court

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