Legal Opinion
Vincenzo Roccisano v. Frederick Menifee, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 15, 2002No. Docket 00-2471PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEARSE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Vincenzo Roecisano, a federal prisoner who filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking relief from his narcotics convictions on the ground that he received ineffective assistance from his trial counsel, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denying his motion for reconsideration of the court’s decision to treat his § 2241 petition as a motion for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and to-transfer it to this Court for a determination of whether Roc-cisano should be granted leave to file a…
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