Legal Opinion
Leka v. Portuondo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided December 30, 1999No. 1:97-cv-02061PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REVISED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
TRAGER, District Judge.
Petitioner Sami Leka is currently in the custody of New York State prison officials pursuant to a 1990 conviction on second degree murder and weapons charges. Asserting actual innocence, Leka petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claiming that the police investigation and state court proceedings leading to his conviction violated his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. First, Leka argues that he was convicted partly as a result of imper-missibly suggestive…
2Cases cited90 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Sami Leka v. Leonard A. Portuondo, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Breighner v. ChesneyDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 2004
- Claudious W. Channer v. Warden Leslie E. BrooksCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Noble v. KellyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2000
- Leka v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
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