Legal Opinion
Yeboah-Sefah v. Ficco
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 19, 2009No. 07-2585PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner, Daniel Yeboah-Sefah, a/k/a Henry K. Boateng, 1 is a state prisoner convicted in Massachusetts of charges stemming from the murder of his five-week old son and the severe beating of his former girlfriend. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. His primary defense at trial was that he was not guilty by reason of insanity.
Petitioner’s present appeal challenges the district court’s denial of his federal petition for habeas corpus relief. Among the issues raised on habeas, petitioner argues that (1) he did not make a “knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver”…
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