Legal Opinion
Morales v. Portuondo
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 27, 2001No. 97 CIV. 2559(DC), 97 CIV. 3336(DC)PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
In these related cases, petitioners Jose Morales and Ruben Montalvo challenge their 1988 convictions for the murder of Jose Antonio Rivera. By Opinion dated July 24, 2001 (the “Opinion”), I concluded that Morales’s due process rights were violated when the trial court declined to order a new trial in the face of evidence that another individual had confessed to participating in the murder and exonerated Morales and Montalvo. See Morales v. Portuondo, 154 F.Supp.2d 706 (S.D.N.Y.2001). By Order dated July 27, 2001, I granted Morales’s petition for a writ of habeas…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Hilton v. BraunskillSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- George Lindstadt v. John P. Keane, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- James Capps v. George SullivanCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- Young v. ConwayDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 2011
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