Legal Opinion
Campiti v. Matesanz
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 11, 2002No. CIV.A. 97-30263-MAPPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM REGARDING PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
(Docket No. 1)
PONSOR, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Habeas corpus petitioner Francesco Campiti (“Campiti”) argues that he has been wrongly imprisoned following convictions on five counts of trafficking in cocaine in excess of 200 grams. Campiti’s arguments can be broken into five categories: (1) appellate delay; (2) ineffective assistance of counsel; (3) prosecutorial misconduct; (4) improper amendments to the indictment; and (5) insufficiency of the evidence.
As will be seen, each of these claims must be rejected. First, the…
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