Legal Opinion
Wesley Chalmers v. Robert Mitchell, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 3, 1996No. 137, Docket 94-2672PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
Wesley Chalmers, an inmate at Eastern Correctional Facility, appeals the denial of his petition for of a writ of habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Sifton, C.J. Chalmers filed a notice of appeal on November 10, 1994 and the district court issued a certificate of probable cause on November *126622, 1994. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We affirm the district court’s denial of the petition and hold that the trial judge’s instruction defining reasonable doubt as “a doubt for which some good reason can be…
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