Meadows v. Kuhlmann

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Quentin Meadows (“appellant”), a state prisoner, appeals from a judgment entered September 25, 1986 in the Eastern District of New York, Thomas C. Platt, District Judge, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 644 F.Supp. 757 (E.D.N.Y.1986). The court held that the error, if any, in the admission in evidence of an identification, made during a lineup after the right to counsel had attached but when defense counsel was not present, was harmless. The court also held that, because appellant’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel had not attached at the time appellant…