Legal Opinion
Leyva v. Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 4, 1977No. 76 C 131PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
NEAHER, District Judge.
Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus following his conviction, with two co-defendants, of criminal possession of dangerous drugs (1st and 4th degrees) after a jury trial in State Supreme Court, Kings County. He is presently serving a sentence of 15 years to life imprisonment. The judgment of conviction was unanimously affirmed by the Appellate Division, 46 A.D.2d 740, 360 N.Y.S.2d 596 (1974), and, in a written opinion, by the Court of Appeals, 38 N.Y.2d 160, 379 N.Y.S.2d 30, 341 N.E.2d 546 (1975).
Petitioner’s first claim is that his conviction was…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Alonzo Singleton v. The Honorable Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York State Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Morrison v. LefevreDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1984
- Joseph Bellavia v. Walter Fogg, Warden, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
- Samuel Allen, Raymond Hardrick and Melvin Lemmons v. County Court, Ulster County and New York Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Woodbourne, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- Lopez v. CurryCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
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