Legal Opinion
Sinnott v. Duval
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 17, 1998No. 97-1715PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from a district court denial of a petition for habeas corpus, brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, 1 petitioner Jeffrey Sin-nott seeks to set aside his 1987 conviction for first degree murder based on “extreme atrocity and cruelty.” He was indicted in 1988, along with a co-defendant, Gary E. Mosso, 2 for the murder of Anthony Tamburro, and found guilty by a Massachusetts Superior Court jury in 1984, the judgment being affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Sinnott, 399 Mass. 863, 507 N.E.2d 699 (1987). After…
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