Legal Opinion
Evans v. Fischer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 3, 2013No. Docket 11-4418-prPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Carlos Evans was convicted by a jury of burglarizing a Brooklyn apartment and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He was tried along with two codefendants, Hudson Merzier and Anthony Foster, on the strength of evidence recovered from the scene as well as the testimony of, among others, Aisha Walker. Walker was both an acquaintance of the defendants and a neighbor and acquaintance of the burglary victim, Olujimni Om-itogun. One week before Evans’s trial, Walker agreed to testify against the defendants in exchange for a non-custodial sentence for her…
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