Legal Opinion
Murden v. Artuz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 10, 2007No. Docket 05-0610-prPublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENISE COTE, District Judge:
The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein issued a Certificate of Appealability with his denial of the petition filed by William Murden (“Murden”) for a writ of habeas corpus. Murden asserts that his 1991 conviction for murder in the second degree in New York state court should be overturned because the jury was not given a charge on the partial affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance (“EED”). Specifi*184cally, Murden complains that his trial counsel failed to develop the evidence that would have supported an EED charge. For the following reasons, Judge Wein-stein’s…
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