Legal Opinion
Fernandez v. Leonardo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided July 12, 1990No. CV-88-2910PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GLASSER, District Judge:
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons set forth below, the court grants the petition in its entirety.
PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Petitioner was convicted following a jury trial of murder in the second degree, attempted robbery in the first degree, and criminal use of a firearm in the second degree. On May 21, 1982, petitioner was sentenced to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment from twenty-five years to life for his conviction of felony murder, and from seven and one-half to fifteen…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Bienbenito Fernandez v. Arthur A. LeonardoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- Bonilla v. HokeDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1991