Legal Opinion

Domingo Casillas v. Charles Scully, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided July 25, 1985No. 1180, Docket 85-2023PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Domingo Casillas, a New York State prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, I. Leo Glasser, Judge, dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Charles Scully, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility (hereinafter the “State”), asserting principally that the refusal of the state trial court to give a lesser-included-offense charge in its instructions to the jury denied him the fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution and that the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. Marks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  4. Bouie v. City of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  5. Marks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977

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3Cited by53 opinions

  1. Ronald Davis v. Wayne Strack, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility and Dennis C. Vacco, New York State Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
  2. Blazic v. HendersonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
  3. Joseph Rice v. Robert Hoke, Warden, Eastern Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1988
  4. Blazic v. HendersonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
  5. United States v. RosengartenCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1988

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