Legal Opinion

Veal v. Myers

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided July 14, 2004No. 2:98-cv-03993PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.

Travis Veal (“Veal”) petitions the court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2003). For the following reasons, Veal’s petition is denied.

I. Facts and Procedural History

On April 21, 1989, Veal was convicted by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia of second degree murder, robbery, conspiracy and possessing an instrument of crime. (Report and Recommendation 1 (“R & R”) at 4.) The charges were filed as a result of a robbery of Dave’s Grocery Store, during which Veal and an accomplice, Leonard Ravenell (“Ravenell”),…

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