Legal Opinion
Vincent Scott Vigil v. Aristedes W. Zavaras and the Attorney General of the State of Colorado
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 23, 2002No. 01-1023PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
Vincent Scott Vigil, the Petitioner Appellant, is currently serving a twenty-four-year sentence in Colorado state prison for committing sexual assault in the first degree and committing a violent crime with a deadly weapon while committing first-degree sexual assault. Vigil seeks a writ of habeas corpus from this court, arguing that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated when the jury that convicted him considered evidence beyond that produced at trial. The United States District Court for the District of Colorado denied Vigil relief, but issued a certificate of…
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