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Rivera v. Conway
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 28, 2004No. 04 Civ. 347(DC)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
Pro se petitioner Gilbert Rivera brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted on July 19,1996, after a jury trial in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced on September 10, 1996 to a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life.
Petitioner contests his conviction on the following grounds: (1) the trial court gave an erroneous jury instruction regarding the hearsay statements of an unavailable witness, (2) appellate counsel was ineffective,…
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