Legal Opinion
Nichols v. Kelly
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided May 1, 1996No. 6:95-cv-06033PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LARIMER, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, Donald L. Nichols, brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Nichols is a prisoner at the Attica Correctional Facility (“Attica”) where he is currently incarcerated for a 1988 murder and burglary conviction obtained in the Wayne County (New York) Court. For the reasons set forth below, his petition is dismissed.
BACKGROUND
This ease arises out of the March 1988 shooting death of Nichols’ estranged wife, Exzelda Irene Nichols. At that time, Nichols and Mrs. Nichols had been married for nearly 40 years and had…
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