Casim Noble v. Walter R. Kelly, Superintendent

Casim Noble’s petition for a writ of ha-beas corpus challenges his conviction for attempted murder and related offenses on the ground that his Sixth Amendment Compulsory Process rights were violated when the state trial court ruled that alibi testimony would be excluded because defense counsel failed to comply with a state procedural rule requiring advance notice of intent to call alibi witnesses. Alternatively, Noble argues that his counsel’s noncompliance rendered his counsel’s services constitutionally - ineffective. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York…