ASHERMAN v. MEACHUM

No. 982, Docket 90-2530.

932 F.2d 137 (1991)

Steven M. ASHERMAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Larry MEACHUM, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Corrections, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of Conn. (Clarine Nardi Riddle, Atty. Gen., Steven R. Strom, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

William J. Tracy, Jr. (Furey, Donovan, Eddy, Kocsis, Tracy & Daly, P.C., Bristol, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Larry Meachum, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections, takes an expedited appeal from an October 24, 1990 judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Burns, C.J.) granting appellee Steven Asherman's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition, Asherman asserted, inter alia, that his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination had been violated when the...

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