Court Opinion

ID: 9497061
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:42:31.375083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:57:58.941849
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WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge,
with whom MURPHY, Circuit Judge, joins,
concurring in the judgment.
. I agree with the court that because Brown’s constitutional claim was adjudicated on the merits in state court, AEDPA’s § 2254(d) standard of review should apply. I also agree that any error in excluding the Turner letter was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
For the reasons so persuasively advanced in Judge Richard Arnold’s dissent, however, I cannot agree that the letter was properly excluded on either relevancy or reliability grounds. Accordingly, I concur in the judgment affirming the denial of the writ.