Legal Opinion
Copeland v. Walker
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 15, 2003No. 1:97-cv-02082PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CORRECTED MEMORANDUM & ORDER
KORMAN, Chief Judge.
In the early morning hours of February 26, 1988, a young and newly appointed New York City Police Officer, Edward Byrne, sitting in his patrol car outside the home of a witness he was assigned to protect, was shot five times in the head from a distance of two feet. Officer Byrne died instantly. The killing was apparently meant to send a message to law enforcement authorities from Howard “Pappy” Mason, one of two Queens drug lords who were incarcerated at the time. Petitioner, Philip Copeland, was convicted by a jury sitting in New York State…
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