Legal Opinion
James Beverly v. Hans Walker, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 30, 1997No. 1487, Docket 95-2620PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
James Beverly appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Scullin, J.) dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus based in part on a state court’s jury instructions concerning reasonable doubt. Finding no constitutional error in the instructions, we affirm.
On October 22, 1985, following a jury trial in Onondaga County Court, Beverly was convicted on six counts of selling a controlled substance. He was sentenced as a predicate felon to six concurrent terms of incarceration of 12 1/2 to 25 years. The…
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