Legal Opinion
Lopez v. Miller
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 16, 2013No. 02-CV-3988 (NGG)(LB)PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
NICHOLAS G. GARAUFIS, District Judge.
The case of William Lopez began twenty-three years ago. It was rotten from day one.
In 1989, a man entered a crackhouse in Brooklyn and shot and killed a drug dealer named Elvirn Surria. Lopez was charged with murder for this shooting. After a jury trial before Justice Carolyn Demarest in New York Supreme Court, Lopez was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. His direct appeal and state collateral proceeding — again before Justice Demarest, twenty years later — were unsuccessful. Lopez now asks this court to grant…
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