Legal Opinion
William R. Phillips v. Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 26, 1980No. 1303, Docket 80-2099PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICKERSON, District Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the order of the District Court, Lawrence W. Pierce, Judge, granting petitioner William R. Phillips a writ of habeas corpus unless he is retried.
Phillips, a former New York City police officer, was indicted by a New York County grand jury on March 29, 1972 for the 1968 murders of a pimp and a prostitute and for the attempted murder of a customer of the bordello where the crimes occurred. In August 1972 Phillips’ first trial ended in a hung jury, deadlocked, he claims, ten to two for acquittal. On November 21, 1974, after a…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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