Legal Opinion
Woodrow Williams v. Brion Travis, Chairman, New York State Division of Parole Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 5, 1998No. Docket 97-2698PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PÉR CURIAM:
Petitioner Woodrow Williams appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Reena Raggi, Judge) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Williams pled guilty to burglary in the second degree after being informed by Justice Herbert W. Posner, of the Supreme Court, Queens County, NY, that he faced up to 15 years in prison, and was subsequently sentenced to a 3 1/2 to 7-year term on April 9, 1993. Immediately after sentence was pronounced and petitioner’s counsel had left the courtroom, the…
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