ROCK v. COOMBE

No. 369, Docket 82-2211.

694 F.2d 908 (1982)

Gerald Jerome ROCK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Phillip COOMBE, Jr., Superintendent, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1982.

Certiorari Denied April 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan C. Lippel, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Julie R. Fischer, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Elizabeth Holtzman, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Barbara D. Underwood, Jane S. Meyers, Asst. Dist. Attys., Brooklyn, N.Y., on brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before TIMBERS, KEARSE, and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied April 18, 1983. See 103 S.Ct. 1773.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Gerald Jerome Rock, a New York State prisoner convicted of second-degree murder, appeals from a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, Chief Judge, dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus which contended, inter alia, that the trial judge's instructions to the jury, once in the...

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