Legal Opinion
Santorelli v. Cowhey
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 8, 2000No. 00 CIV. 8292 BDPPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
PARKER, District Judge.
Anthony Santorelli filed this Petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his 1998 conviction on charges of tampering with physical evidence. For the reasons set forth below, the Petition is denied.
BACKGROUND
Petitioner was tried in Supreme Court, Westchester County on four counts of tampering with physical evidence, namely, the bloody clothing worn by the killers of Louis Balancio — a knifing victim — -on February 4, 1994. An FBI agent witnessed the Petitioner disposing of bloody clothes in two plastic trash bags behind a fast food…
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