Legal Opinion
Donovan J.R. Blissett v. Eugene S. Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 22, 1991No. 1259, Docket 89-2030PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Donovan J.R. Blissett, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Howard G. Munson, Chief Judge), dated December 27, 1988, adopting the recommendation of United States Magistrate Daniel Scanlon, Jr. and denying after reconsideration a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner, who was convicted of murder in the second degree, claims he was denied a fair trial because 1) the trial court responded inadequately to the jury’s inquiry into the immunity status of the state’s key…
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