Washington v. Scully

OPINION AND ORDER

SPRIZZO, District Judge:

I. BACKGROUND

Petitioner Bobby Washington has made application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). On November 19,1975, following a jury trial in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County (Tierney, J.), petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree (New York Penal Law § 125.25) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third and fourth degrees (New York Penal Law §§ 265.01,.02). Washington was sentenced to concurrent terms of fifteen years to life and zero to seven years, respectively, on the murder…