Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Armstrong John v. J. Leland Casscles, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 5, 1973No. 167, Docket 73-1892PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is by the State of New York from the granting of a writ of ha-beas corpus to appellee on the basis of erroneous admission at trial of identification evidence.
On May 10, 1967, Louis Connor was slain during the robbery of his cleaning store. In June, 1968, appellee was tried for this crime and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree by the Supreme Court of Kings County. His conviction was affirmed without opinion, 35 A.D.2d 1081, 318 N.Y.S.2d 266 (1970), and the New York Court of Appeals denied leave to appeal on February 4, 1971. Thereafter appellee moved…
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