Cosentino v. Kelly

Petitioners Anthony Magana and Joseph Cosentino appeal from a May 13, 1996 judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, denying their petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Magana and Cosentino challenge their state court convictions because certain of their family members, who had disrupted petitioners’ first trial and precipitated a mistrial, were excluded from petitioners’ second trial, at which they were convicted. We agree with Judge Conner that the state proceedings did not violate the petitioners’ Sixth Amendment right…