Legal Opinion
Whitley v. Ercole
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 22, 2010No. 06 Civ. 10198(AKH)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND OPINION GRANTING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
On November 2, 1981, Dr. John Chase Wood, a young doctor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, was shot and killed as he walked to work. Thirteen years later, Darryl Whitley, the Petitioner, and Patrick McDowell were identified by jailhouse informants as the killers of Dr. Wood. Whitley and McDowell were tried separately in state court, but each jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict. The two were retried, again in separate trials. At his second trial, McDowell, the alleged shooter, was…
2Cases cited67 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miller-El v. CockrellSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Whitley v. ErcoleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2011
- Whitley v. ErcoleDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2013