SINNOTT v. DUVAL

No. 97-1715.

139 F.3d 12 (1998)

Jeffrey SINNOTT, Petitioner, v. Ronald DUVAL, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Stern, Boston, MA, for Petitioner.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, with whom Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Boston, MA, was on brief, for Respondent.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and SHADUR, Senior District Judge.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from a district court denial of a petition for habeas corpus, brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254,1 petitioner Jeffrey Sinnott seeks to set aside his 1987 conviction for first degree murder based on "extreme atrocity and cruelty." He was indicted in 1983, along with a co-defendant, Gary E. Mosso,2 for the murder of Anthony Tamburro, and found guilty by a Massachusetts...

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