RIVERA v. HENDERSON

No. 88 C 1715.

690 F.Supp. 1191 (1988)

Orlando RIVERA, Petitioner, v. Robert J. HENDERSON, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility, Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Elizabeth Holtzman, District Attorney, Kings County, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

June 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orlando Rivera, Coxsackie, N.Y., petitioner pro se.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NICKERSON, District Judge.

Petitioner filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After a jury trial in Kings County, New York, petitioner was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and sentenced on July 25, 1983, as a second felony offender to a term of imprisonment of seven and one-half to fifteen years.

The present petition raises four claims of error: (1) ineffective...

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