Legal Opinion
Evans v. Artuz
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 30, 1999No. 97 CV 3017(RR)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum, and ORDER
RAGGI, District Judge.
Rodney Evans, proceeding pro se, petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Evans was convicted in 1990 after a jury trial of Murder in the Second Degree, N.Y. Penal Law § 125.25[1] (McKinney 1998), and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, N.Y. Penal Law § 265.03 (McKinney 1998). He is presently incarcerated, serving concurrent prison terms of twenty years to life for murder and five to fifteen years for weapon possession. He now challenges his conviction on the grounds (1) that he was denied his-…
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