DeLUCA v. LORD

No. 90 Civ. 4026 (RJW).

858 F.Supp. 1330 (1994)

Sheila Ryan DeLUCA, Petitioner, v. Elaine A. LORD, Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, Respondents.

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

August 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rogers & Wells, New York City (Mark F. Pomerantz, Warren L. Feldman, of counsel), Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., New Haven, CT (David T. Grudberg, of counsel), for petitioner.

Bronx County Dist. Attys. Office, Bronx County, Bronx, NY, Robert T. Johnson, Dist. Atty. (Peter D. Coddington, Jonathan Svetkey, of counsel), for respondents.


ROBERT J. WARD, District Judge.

In this petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed on June 13, 1990, petitioner Sheila Ryan DeLuca ("DeLuca") asserts that she was (1) denied effective assistance of counsel and (2) deprived of her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to present a defense by the trial court's exclusion of expert testimony. This Court initially referred the matter to Magistrate Judge Kathleen A. Roberts, who conducted an evidentiary hearing and filed...

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