Legal Opinion
Okonkwo v. Lacy
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 3, 1997No. Nos. 1363, 1693, Dockets 95-2626, 95-2672PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
Respondent-appellant Peter Lacy, Superintendent of Bare Hill Correctional Facility, appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Seheindlin, J.) granting a conditional writ of habeas corpus to petitioner-appellee Charles Okonkwo. Ok-onkwo is a prisoner at the Bare Hill facility, where he is confined pursuant to a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon to a term…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Waller v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- People v. HintonNew York Court of Appeals · 1972
- Steven Ayala v. Hubert Speckard, Superintendent of Groveland Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- Steven Ayala v. Hubert Speckard, Superintendent of Groveland Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- People v. OkonkwoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
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3Cited by18 opinions
- People v. RamosNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Andrew Brown v. Christopher Artuz, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
- Hector Morales v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
- Owens v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2007
- Okonkwo v. LacyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1997
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