FLANDERS v. MEACHUM

No. 523, Docket 93-2395.

13 F.3d 600 (1994)

James FLANDERS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Larry R. MEACHUM, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan C. Marks, Asst. State's Atty., Wallingford, CT (John M. Bailey, Chief State's Atty. and Herbert Carlson, Jr., Asst. State's Atty., of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Gary D. Weinberger, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Hartford, CT (Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Public Defender, of counsel), for petitioner-appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER, Circuit Judges, and KNAPP, District Judge.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Larry Meachum, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction, appeals from a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Nevas, J.) which granted James Flanders' petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

On November 10, 1987, Flanders was convicted after a trial in Connecticut Superior Court of burglary in the second degree and felony murder...

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