Simpson v. Bell

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CEDRIC SIMPSON, Petitioner, – against – MEMORANDUM & ORDER EARL BELL, 18-cv-1378 (ERK) Respondent. KORMAN, J.: I. BACKGROUND Petitioner Cedric Simpson stabbed his unarmed friend Carl Richardson to death with a pair of scissors after the two had a dispute over $30. Richardson, who was 19 at the time, came to the barbershop petitioner owned, and at which petitioner also worked, to collect the money that Richardson believed petitioner owed him for a pair of headphones. ECF No. 11-2 at 324, 338.1 Despite the fact that petitioner was…