Legal Opinion
Dingle v. Mance
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 18, 2010No. 08 Civ. 2044(SAS)(DFE)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:
I. BACKGROUND
Represented by counsel, Petitioner John Dingle brings this habeas corpus petition, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“section 2254”), to challenge his state-court conviction for depraved indifference murder— later reduced to manslaughter. During the jury trial before Justice Robert H. Straus of the New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, Justice Straus refused to charge the jury on the law of justification (self-defense), though the evidence was undisputed that Dingle had been attacked by the decedent with a knife and a bat. Based on…
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