Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Reynolds
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 15, 1989No. 88 C 2909PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
NICKERSON, District Judge.
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982), claiming that his court-appointed counsel’s failure to perfect his appeal for six years denied him due process of law and effective assistance of counsel.
I
A Kings County grand jury indicted petitioner in 1980 on one count of second-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He was then fifteen years old. His first trial resulted in a hung jury. After a second trial, he was found guilty of second-degree murder, and on July 14, 1982…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Douglas v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Harris v. ChampionCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
- Norman Simmons v. Edward F. Reynolds, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility, and the People of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- Victor Turner v. Margaret BagleyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2005
- Geames v. HendersonDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1989
- Cameron v. LeFevreDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1995
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