Basora v. Mitchell

MEMORANDUM ORDER

VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.

I

This is a petition for habeas corpus by a state prisoner seeking relief from a conviction for criminal possession and sale of a controlled substance, 14 ounces of cocaine. According to the prosecution’s proof, a cooperating defendant arranged the transaction involving petitioner, who appeared with what turned out to be the narcotics. The drugs were then driven to a parking lot in Yonkers where one of petitioner’s agents who participated in the meeting with petitioner sold the cocaine to undercover officers. Petitioner was arrested at the…