People ex rel. Di Meo v. Artus

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McGill, J.), entered March 3, 2006 in Clinton County, which denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 70, after a hearing.

During the course of an armed robbery of a Connecticut jewelry store, petitioner shot and killed its two owners. He then fled Connecticut by first going to his apartment in New York and then traveling to New Jersey. He was ultimately apprehended in New Jersey where he admitted the commission of the Connecticut crimes, as well as the commission of earlier crimes in New…