Legal Opinion
Melendez v. Kirkpatrick
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided October 8, 2010No. 06-CV-6416(VEB)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
VICTOR E. BIANCHINI, United States Magistrate Judge.
I. Background
By a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, pro se petitioner Antonio Melendez (“Melendez” or “petitioner”) has challenged the constitutionality of his state custody pursuant to a 2002 judgment of conviction on charges of depraved indifference murder and weapons possession charges. The parties have consented to disposition of the instant petition by a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(1).
Melendez’s convictions stem from the murder of Stephen Hewitt (“Hewitt” or “the…
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