Legal Opinion
Ronald Mask v. Michael McGinnis Superintendent, Southport Correctional Facility Dennis C. Vacco, New York State Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 15, 2000No. 1999PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Respondents-Appellants Michael McGinnis, Superintendent of the Southport Correctional Facility, and Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, appeal the December 2, 1998, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Denny Chin, Judge), which conditionally granted Petitioner-Appellee Ronald Mask’s petition for habeas corpus unless: (1) Mask’s sentence is reduced to a term of eight to sixteen years; or (2) Mask is granted a new trial. The district court concluded that Mask received ineffective assistance of counsel in the course…
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