Legal Opinion
David Sweet v. Floyd Bennett, Superintendent of Elmira Correctional Institution
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 19, 2003No. Docket 02-2055PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge WALKER concurs in a separate opinion.
F.I.PARKER, Circuit Judge.**.
Petitioner-appellant David Sweet appeals from the amended judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Jonathan W. Feldman, Magistrate Judge)1 entered on January 15, 2002, denying his petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Sweet’s petition was based, among other things, on a claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel failed to object when: (1) the trial court’s instructions to the jury charged Sweet with second…
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