Legal Opinion
Green v. Scully
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 13, 1993No. 92 Civ. 4686 (VLB)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
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Wayne Green filed a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254 seeking relief from his conviction in Westchester County Court for burglary in the second degree as a persistent felony offender and from his sentence to imprisonment for fifteen years to life on May 12, 1986. The petition was based upon unavailability of a transcript of the trial, said to be in part traceable to failure of petitioner’s appellate trial counsel to obtain a newly prepared transcript if the court reporter’s notes were still available. A hearing was held to reconstruct the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- United States v. Lorenzo Nichols, Appeal of Claudia Mason and Char T. Davis, A/K/A "Shocker"Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- People v. GreenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
- Solis v. WalkerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1992
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