Legal Opinion
Oscar Boria v. John Keane, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 25, 1996No. 1332, Docket 95-2688PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CORRECTED OPINION
WHITMAN KNAPP, Senior District Judge.
The petitioner is now — and for about six years has been — serving a twenty year to life sentence resulting from a “buy and bust” arrest for having sold four plastic bags of cocaine to an informer. This was petitioner’s first contact with the criminal law. Upon this appeal, he does not challenge the propriety of the trial leading to his conviction. Rather, he asserts that he was deprived of constitutionally adequate representation by counsel when the People offered him a plea bargain which would have resulted in a one to three year…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Von Moltke v. GilliesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Richard Winkler v. John Keane, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
- Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Roosevelt Walker v. E. B. Caldwell, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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3Cited by172 opinions
- United States v. Gerald GordonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1998
- Bernard Cullen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
- Phillip Griffin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2003
- Gonzalez v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
- Johney Pham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
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