Rossney v. Travis

REVISED SUMMARY ORDER

Petitioner-appellant Damian Rossney (“Rossney”) appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.), denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Rossney is serving a sentence of eight and one-third to twenty-five years for conspiracy in the second degree, concurrently with a sentence of five to fifteen years for criminal facilitation, in connection with four 1986 murders. In January 1997, Rossney appeared before the New York State Parole Board (“the Board") for a parole hearing. The Board ultimately denied…