Legal Opinion
Alan Lefkowitz v. Michael Fair, Commissioner, Department of Corrections, Arif Hussain v. Michael Fair, Etc., Alan Lefkowitz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 13, 1987No. 86-1723, 86-1962PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Alan Lefkowitz, M.D., petitioner-appellant, asks us to review orders of two different judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the net effect of which was to frustrate his belated attempt to have a state conviction screened by means of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241-54, for federal constitutional error. Having surveyed the scene, we affirm the judgments entered below.
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In June 1981, the appellant, then a thirty year old physician, was convicted, along with two other men, of rape. He was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of three to…
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