Legal Opinion
Vega v. Walsh
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 17, 2012No. Docket 10-2540-prPublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Per curiam
Petitioner-appellant Henry Vega, convicted of, inter alia, murder in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 2002, appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Vega alleged that his rights were violated by the trial court’s admission of (1) evidence of uncharged crimes and a tattoo featuring the word “Enforcer” and (2) the testimony of a medical examiner about an autopsy she had not performed. The district court rejected both claims. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
On November 5, 1996, a police officer discovered the body of Thomas Hill in a…
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