Legal Opinion
Harris v. Senkowski
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 26, 2004No. 96 CV 2231(FB)(RML)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BLOCK, District Judge.
The Court grants petitioner Damecha Harris’ (“Harris”) habeas corpus petition challenging, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, his state court robbery conviction, for which he is serving a term of fifteen years to life. Two aspects of this case are rather remarkable: one, the abject ineffectiveness of trial counsel for his failure to confront the victim — the sole witness who identified Harris as the perpetrator at his trial — with a totally different description of him given by her to the police within thirty minutes after the robbery; two, that it has…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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