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MUWWAKKIL v. HOKE

No. 1174, Docket 91-2568.

968 F.2d 284 (1992)

Mikail MUWWAKKIL, a/k/a Michael Negron, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert HOKE, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Ware Levitt, New York City, for petitioner-appellant.

Ann Bordley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Charles J. Hynes, Dist. Atty. for Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y., Jay M. Cohen, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, NEWMAN, and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Mikail Muwwakkil appeals from the December 9, 1991 order of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Korman, Judge, denying his amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Muwwakkil argues that a thirteen year delay in hearing his direct appeal from a state murder conviction violated his right to effective access to the appellate process, thereby requiring a vacatur or reduction of his sentence...

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