Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Zon
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 27, 2008No. 03 Civ. 8359(RJH)PublishedCited by 288 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
RICHARD J. HOLWELL, District Judge.
Thomas Lewis (“Lewis”) brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, following his 1999 conviction in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County for second degree robbery. Lewis was sentenced as a second violent felony offender to a determinate term of imprisonment of fifteen years. In the main, petitioner challenges the ad hoc competency procedure the state trial court employed to supplement, and effectively, supplant the statutorily-mandated adversary hearing. At the hearing, two…
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