Terrence E. Mason v. Charles J. Scully, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Respondent Charles J. Scully, Superintendent of New York State’s Green Haven Correctional Facility (the “State”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Edward R. Korman, Judge, granting the petition of Terrence E. Mason, a New York State prisoner convicted of robbery, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his trial counsel’s performance was so inadequate as to violate his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. On appeal, the State contends that the district court erred in…