Legal Opinion
Varela v. Marshall
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 2, 2007No. 06 Civ. 6051(VM)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
VICTOR MARRERO, District Judge.
Pro se petitioner Ronnie Varela (“Varela”) filed a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging that he is being held in state custody in violation of his federal constitutional rights. On September 10, 2002, Varela was convicted in New York State Supreme Court, New York County, of burglary in the first degree. Varela was sentenced, as a second felony offender, to a term of eight years imprisonment.
In his petition, Varela claims that he was: (1) denied the right to a public trial when the trial court excluded his family from the…
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