PULEIO v. VOSE

No. 87-1135.

830 F.2d 1197 (1987)

Joseph A. PULEIO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. George A. VOSE, Jr., etc., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Kanwit, Boston, Mass., by Appointment of the Court, with whom James E. Carroll, Gaston Snow and Ely Bartlett, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Paula J. DeGiacomo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Acting Chief, Crim. Appellate Div., with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., and A. John Pappalardo, Chief, Crim. Bureau, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Joseph A. Puleio, was convicted of first degree murder in a Massachusetts state court in March 1981. The judgment was affirmed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). See Commonwealth v. Puleio, 394 Mass. 101, 474 N.E.2d 1078 (1985) (Puleio I). The appellant thereafter filed for habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the...

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