Jimenez v. Lilley

USDC SDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DATE FILED:_ 9/15/21 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Rafael Jimenez, Petitioner, 16-cv-8545 (AJN) —y— OPINION & ORDER Tina M. Stanford, Respondent. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: Rafael Jimenez, who is no longer incarcerated,! brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his state-court conviction for murder. He principally contends that a witness identified him as the shooter at trial only because a detective falsely told the witness that Jimenez was Dominican, and thus matched the witness’s earlier…