GREEN v. ABRAMS

No. 610, Docket 92-2553.

984 F.2d 41 (1993)

Xenia GREEN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert ABRAMS, Attorney General of the State of New York, N.Y. County District Attorney's Office, Commissioner of Corrections, County of New York, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Mitchell G. Krapes, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty. for New York County, Alan Gadlin, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City, of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before: MESKILL, Chief Judge, WINTER, Circuit Judge, and RESTANI, Judge.


RESTANI, Judge:

Xenia Green was convicted of criminally negligent homicide on December 16, 1987. After exhausting her remedies in the New York state court system,1 Green petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The district court, Sweet, J., denied Green's petition, but certified the issue for appeal.2 We affirm the district court's...

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