Legal Opinion
Nathan Sams v. Hans Walker, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 7, 1994No. 774, Docket 93-2165PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Nathan Sams, a New York State prisoner, appeals from an order of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, Shirley Wohl Kram, Judge, denying his pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988). The district court, adopting the recommendation of Theodore H. Katz, Magistrate Judge, rejected petitioner’s constitutional challenges to certain identification testimony adduced at trial and to a supplemental jury instruction on felony murder.
We affirm.
BACKGROUND
In 1980, Sams was convicted in a New York…
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