WATSON v. STATE OF N.M.

No. 93-2283.

45 F.3d 385 (1995)

Walter WATSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO and New Mexico Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Finzel, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, NM, for petitioner-appellant.

Gail MacQuesten, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Tom Udall, Atty. Gen., with her on the brief), Santa Fe, NM, for respondent-appellee.

Before KELLY, Circuit Judge, and SETH and McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

On January 4, 1990, Walter Watson filed a petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. In the petition, Watson alleged that he had been convicted in a state court of New Mexico for sexual contact of a minor and sentenced to a term of imprisonment and a one-year mandatory parole upon release. As grounds for relief from the conviction and sentence thus suffered, Watson urged...

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