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PETERSON v. SCULLY

No. 440, Docket 89-2202.

896 F.2d 661 (1990)

Frank C. PETERSON (80-A-1720), Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles SCULLY, Superintendent of Greenhaven Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan C. Scott, St. James, N.Y., for petitioner-appellant.

Howard L. Perzan, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty. for New York County, Marc Frazier Scholl, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City, of counsel), for respondents-appellees.

Before FEINBERG and MESKILL, Circuit Judges, and COFFRIN, District Judge.

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal petitioner Frank Peterson contends that the district court should have granted his petition for a writ of habeas corpus because the conduct of the judge who presided over his state trial on charges of rape, sodomy and robbery deprived him of his constitutional right to a fair trial. He appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Haight, J., denying his petition without...

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