Legal Opinion
Medina v. Artuz
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 12, 1995No. 94 Civ. 7893 (VLB)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
Jose Medina has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 seeking relief from his convictions on February 27, 1986 and sentence for murder and arson in the Supreme Court, Westches-ter County. Petitioner’s prosecution arose from a fire in a building in which a mother and her son were found dead; petitioner was heard by witnesses to say that he “meant to get rid of’ the child, who may have been killed before being burned according to expert testimony. The state court found in connection with sentence that…
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