Legal Opinion
Bumpus v. Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facility
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 6, 2007No. 1:07-cv-01791PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
VITALIANO, District Judge.
Two young men were arrested for the robbery and murder of the same victim. The two were later indicted for the same crimes by the same grand jury in the same true bill. The two were then prosecuted in the same courtroom at the same time, confronting the same witnesses before the same trial judge and jury. Both were convicted at the same moment and each received the same sentence. Any trial error or infirmity in the evidence as to one was equally error and infirmity as to the other. Both appealed. When the appellate process concluded, the…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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