Legal Opinion
Letlow v. Sabourin
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided November 8, 2002No. CIV.01-0103 LBSPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SAND, District Judge. *
Wilfred Letlow (“Letlow” or “Petitioner”) brings this petition pro se for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The sole ground Petitioner presents for relief is the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for erroneously convincing him to forsake his right to appeal his state conviction.
I. Background
On August 24, 1995, Letlow stabbed his wife ninety-two times with a pair of scissors in their locked bedroom. 1 Subsequent to his indictment on murder charges Letlow, together with his sister Shirley Gibbons (“Gibbons”), engaged as…
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