Legal Opinion
Soto v. Lefevre
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 2, 1986No. 85 Civ. 5075 (CBM)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOTLEY, Chief Judge.
This case is now before the court on the petition of William Soto for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2254. Petitioner alleges that the New York State judgment and sentence which have placed him in respondent’s custody are the result of a trial at which he was denied (1) his Fourteenth Amendment right to be convicted only upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and (2) his Fourteenth Amendment right to a fundamentally fair trial and to present a defense. Petitioner is currently serving a ten to twenty year sentence for manslaughter in the first…
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