Genaro Campos v. Leonard Portuondo, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility

Petitioner-appellant Genaro Campos appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lawrence M. McKenna, Judge), denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court granted a certificate of appealability and the issue pursued on appeal is whether the trial court’s decision to give three Allen charges during jury deliberations was im-permissibly coercive. See Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492, 17 S.Ct. 154, 41 L.Ed. 528 (1896). We affirm.

DISCUSSION

Campos was tried in January 1994 in Supreme Court, Bronx County, New York for…