Smith v. Wenderlich

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Rameen Smith, who was convicted in a New York State (“State”) court in 2000 of robbery, grand larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property, for which he was sentenced to a determinate term of a total of 11 years’ imprisonment, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, John Gleeson, Judge, denying his habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Smith alleged principally that his right to be free from double jeopardy was violated when, after he had been imprisoned for 11 years but had not…