James Benn v. Charles Greiner

SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.

Respondent-appellant Charles Greiner, superintendent of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility (“appellant”), appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Weinstein, J.) entered on December 19, 2003, granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner-appellee James Benn (“Benn”). See Benn v. Greiner, 294 F.Supp.2d 354 (E.D.N.Y.2003). The district court found that Benn’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when, during his trial for sodomy and attempted rape, the trial court curtailed cross-examination of…