Legal Opinion
Baptiste v. Ercole
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided January 21, 2011No. 7:08-cr-00728PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
Hon. THOMAS J. McAVOY, Senior District Judge.
Petitioner Malcolm Baptiste is an inmate in the custody of the New York Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”). He was convicted by a jury in Schenectady County Court of two counts of second degree murder (N.Y. Penal Law § 125.25(2)) and second degree criminal possession of a weapon (N.Y. Penal Law § 265.03) and was sentenced to serve an aggregate term of fifty years to life in prison. Dkt. No. 1 at 2.
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on the grounds that: (1) the evidence was insufficient…
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