Legal Opinion

Bennett v. Artuz

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided September 26, 2003No. 1:98-cv-01274PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER AND OPINION

GERSHON, District Judge.

Petitioner Tony Bruce Bennett filed this application for habeas corpus relief, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, on May 29, 2001, alleging that his Sixth Amendment right to present witnesses on his own behalf was violated by the state trial judge’s exclusion of a witness at trial.

Procedural History

On September 24, 1985, petitioner was convicted in New York Supreme Court, Queens County (Friedmann, J.), following a jury trial, of two counts of Attempted Murder in the 2nd Degree in violation of New York Penal Law §§ 110 and 1125.25; one count of Criminal…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  3. Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  4. Artuz v. BennettSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. Angel Sellan v. Robert KuhlmanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001

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3Cited by1 opinion

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