Legal Opinion
Blasi v. Attorney General of Com. of Pennsylvania
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 2, 2000No. 4:CV-98-1545PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
McCLURE, District Judge.
BACKGROUND:
On September 18, 1998, petitioner John Joseph Blasi, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, commenced this action with the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Blasi was convicted in 1994 in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County of four counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, two counts of indecent assault, and one count each of corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, and indecent exposure. Two consecutive terms of…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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3Cited by9 opinions
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