Sparman v. Edwards

Respondent appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Gleeson, J.) granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner after determining that petitioner’s counsel at his state trial had been constitutionally ineffective. We affirm the judgment of the district court substantially for the reasons stated by Judge Gleeson in his Memorandum and Order, Sparman v. Edwards, 1997 WL 878324, -F.Supp. - (E.D.N.Y.1997).

We note in passing that Judge Gleeson held an evidentiary hearing at which petitioner’s trial counsel, who was then (and now) charged with…