Legal Opinion
Dias v. Maloney
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 2, 2001No. Civ.A. 00-10845-WGYPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
Gilbert Dias (“Dias”) was convicted of second-degree murder in 1975 and was sentenced to life in prison. He now petitions this Court, pro se, for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is holding him in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
I. BACKGROUND
Over the past twenty-five years, numerous state and federal courts have addressed myriad challenges brought by Dias against his conviction. In order to place Dias’s current petition in context, this Court will begin by…
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