Legal Opinion
Figueroa v. Commissioner of Correction
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided January 26, 2009No. Case 3:04cv454 (SRU)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
STEFAN R. UNDERHILL, District Judge.
The petitioner, Carlos Figueroa, is currently confined at the MacDougall Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut. He brings this action pro se for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his 1993 conviction on the charges of sexual assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree and robbery in the second degree.
I. Procedural Background
In January 1993, a Connecticut Superior Court jury convicted Figueroa of one count of sexual assault in the first degree, one count…
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