Legal Opinion
Melvin Poindexter v. John Nash, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 26, 2003No. Docket 02-2224PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Melvin Poindexter, a federal prisoner who was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut of narcotics offenses and sen tenced as a career offender, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Lawrence E. Kahn, Judge, dismissing his petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 which alleged chiefly (1) that Poindexter received ineffective assistance of counsel at trial, (2) that his sentence violates Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d…
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