Legal Opinion
Evans v. Fischer
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 22, 2011No. 06 CV 5919(RJD)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
DEARIE, District Judge.
Carlos Evans, serving a fifteen-year sentence on his 2002 convictions for burglary, *173assault and criminal possession of a weapon, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2254, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, § 104,110 Stat. 1214 (“AEDPA”).
The focus of the petition is the admission at petitioner’s trial of an unsworn, highly detailed seven-page hearsay narrative, penned by the state’s key trial witness, containing the most damaging evidence and nearly the entirety of the…
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3Cited by1 opinion
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