Jose Martin Taveras v. Superintendent Joseph T. Smith

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

Respondent-Appellant Joseph T. Smith, Superintendent of the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stein, /.), conditionally granting the application for a writ of habe-as corpus of Jose Martin Taveras (“Taver-as” or “Petitioner”) and ordering that Tav-eras be released from custody unless the New York Appellate Division reinstated his direct appeal within 60 days, and — if Taveras met the relevant indigency requirements — appointed counsel to represent…