Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Portuondo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 19, 2004No. 03-2963PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
Petitioner-Appellant Victor Garcia was convicted in March 1997, after a jury trial in New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, of two counts of Murder in the Second Degree and four counts of Robbery in the First Degree. Garcia was sentenced to two concurrent indeterminate terms of incarceration of twenty-five years to life on each murder count, to run consecutively with four consecutive indeterminate terms of eight and one-third years to life on the robbery counts, for an aggregate of fifty-eight and one-third years to life. Garcia is presently serving this sentence.
In April 2003,…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Richard Cotto v. Victor Herbert, Warden, Attica Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Thomas Garcia v. Hazel Lewis, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
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