James BESSER, a/k/a James Zerilli, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
James WALSH, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.
William Phillips, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
Dale Artus, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
Carlos Portalatin, Petitioner-Appellee,
v.
Harold Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellant.
Vance Morris, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
Dale Artus, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.
William Washington, Petitioner-Appellee,
v.
Thomas Poole, Superintendent, Five Points Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellant.
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Argued in Tandem: April 16, 2008.
Decided: March 31, 2010.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant Besser.
Martin M. Lucente, The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant Phillips.
Joshua Michael Levine (Lynne W.L. Fahey), Appellate Advocates, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellee Portalatin.
Andrew C. Fine (Paul Wiener), The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant Morris.
Jonathan M. Kirshbaum (Robert S. Dean), Center For Appellate Litigation, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellee, Washington.
Mark Dwyer, Assistant District Attorney, of counsel (Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York County; Morrie I. Kleinbart, Special Assistant District Attorney; Nicole Beder, Assistant District Attorney, of counsel), New York, New York, for Respondent-Appellee Walsh.
Roseann B. Mackechnie, Deputy Solicitor General for Criminal Matters (Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York; Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General; Malancha Chanda, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), New York, New York, for Respondents-Appellees Artus and Cuomo.
Leonard Joblove, Assistant District Attorney, of counsel (Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Kings County; Ann Bordley, Assistant District Attorney, of counsel), Brooklyn, New York, for Respondent-Appellant Graham.
Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York (Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General; Roseann B. MacKechnie, Deputy Solicitor General for Criminal Matters; Malancha Chanda, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), New York, New York, for Respondent-Appellant Poole.
Marshall A. Mintz, Mintz & Oppenheim LLP, New York, New York (Richard D. Willstatter, Chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Vice-Chair of the 2nd Circuit Amicus Curiae Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, White Plains, New York), for Amici Curiae New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Before: WINTER, SACK, Circuit Judges and MURTHA, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
The principal question on appeal is whether New York state court decisions affirming sentences enhanced under New York's persistent felony offender ("PFO") statute, N.Y. Penal Law § 70.10, unreasonably applied clearly established federal law. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d).
The district court issued a writ of habeas corpus in the petitions of Carlos Portalatin and William Washington and the relevant state authorities brought this appeal...
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