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EDWARDS v. JONES

No. 62, Docket 83-2044.

720 F.2d 751 (1983)

Cyril EDWARDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. E.W. JONES, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Anolik, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Janet M. Berk, Asst. Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Elizabeth Holtzman, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Barbara D. Underwood, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and FRIENDLY and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

Cyril Edwards appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, J., denying Edwards's petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After a trial in the state court in September 1979, the jury acquitted Edwards of intentional murder, but found him guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter in the first...

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