Legal Opinion
Mokone v. Kelly
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 17, 1988No. 86 Civ. 8538 (MBM)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
MUKASEY, District Judge.
Stephen Mokone, convicted in May 1980 following a jury trial in the state courts of New York of Assault in the First Degree, New York Penal Law § 120.10(2), in connection with a sulfuric acid attack on Ann Boylan Rogers, his wife’s divorce lawyer, that left her blind in one eye and permanently scarred, petitioned in December 1986 for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mokone’s 128-page brief challenged his conviction on essentially six grounds: insufficiency of the evidence, an impermissible variance between the judge’s charge to the…
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