Gregory Agnew v. Blair J. Leibach

How courts have described this case

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• reversing denial of habeas-corpus petition where bailiffs testimony regarding defendant’s admissions “constituted substantive evidence” of the defendant’s guilt
• reversing denial of habeas- corpus petition where bailiff’s testimony regarding de- fendant’s admissions “constituted substantive evidence” of the defendant’s guilt
• granting habeas petition under pre-AEDPA law based on the bailiff’s “continuous association [with the jury] throughout the first day of a two-day trial”
• evaluating the importance of the improperly admitted evi- dence to the prosecution’s case
• “This was not a chance encounter on an elevator but was a continuous association throughout the first day of a two-day trial.”
• “This was not a chance encounter on an elevator but was a continuous association throughout the first day of a two-day trial.”

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