Henry v. Scully

Respondents-appellants Charles J. Scully, Superintendent of the Green Haven Correctional Facility, and Dennis C. Yaceo, Attorney General of the State of New York,1 appeal from a judgment entered July 26, 1995 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kimba Wood, Judge, that granted the petition of petitioner-appellee Hugh Henry for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on the basis that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at his trial. Henry was convicted in 1981 of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and…