Legal Opinion
Mendes v. Brady
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 8, 2011No. 09-2021PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from denial of relief on writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006), sought on a claim of ineffecfive assistance of appellant’s trial counsel. John Gomes Mendes was convicted in a Massachusetts court of the first degree murder of his wife, on a record suggesting a motive to gain control of her small inheritance to pay for prostitutes and drugs. Although incriminating circumstantial evidence was substantial, Mendes was not indicted and prosecuted until thirteen years after the crime, when police learned of two witnesses to whom he had…
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