Castillo v. Harris

LASKER, District Judge.

Alfredo Castillo was convicted by a jury of violating N.Y. Penal Law § 220.43 by selling three and five-eighths ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer for $3,500. He received the least severe sentence allowed under the Penal Law, a mandatory indeterminate sentence of life imprisonment, with a minimum term of fifteen years. N.Y. Penal Law § 70.00. He petitions, on several grounds, for a writ of habeas corpus.

1. Castillo’s first claim is that the evidence at trial was insufficient to support the jury’s finding that it was he who sold the cocaine to the…