BILLER v. LOPES

No. 261, Docket 87-2165.

834 F.2d 41 (1987)

Meyer BILLER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Raymond LOPES, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Sellers, Asst. State's Atty., Office of the Chief State's Atty., Wallingford, Conn., for respondent-appellant.

M. Mitchell Morse, New Haven, Conn. (University of Bridgeport Law School, Bridgeport, Conn.), for petitioner-appellee.

Before OAKES and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and BONSAL, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is by the State of Connecticut from the grant of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Alan H. Nevas, Judge. Petitioner Biller successfully challenged the legality of his 1982 conviction on charges of interfering with a police officer on the basis that the denial of his in limine motion to preclude use on cross-examination of a 1976 conviction deprived him...

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