Katherine Lea Stanfield v. Jennifer Tyvand, Warden

This petition raises the following questions: I. Whether Katherine Stanfield was deprived of her Sixth Amendment right to confront her accusers when the trial court allowed the State’s expert pathologist to offer her opinion that a child had died from severe, non-accidental trauma to his brain, when that opinion that was based, in large part, on testimonial evidence prepared out-of-court by a lab technician. II. Whether the Idaho Supreme Court’s opinion on the Sixth Amendment question was contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by this Court.