SIMPSON v. MATESANZ

Civil Action No. 97-11017-NG.

29 F.Supp.2d 11 (1998)

William Harry SIMPSON, Petitioner, v. James MATESANZ, Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Harry Simpson, Norfolk, VA, pro se.

Pamela L. Hunt, Attorney General's Office, Criminal Bureau, William J Duensing, Assistant Attorney General, Boston, MA, for Respondent.


ORDER

GERTNER, District Judge.

For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum and Order, the Petitioner's Motion for Habeas Corpus [docket # 1] is GRANTED.

SO ORDERED.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

This is a case in which every single attempt to define reasonable doubt in the jury instructions was, by current constitutional standards, problematic, and in which the instructions as a whole...

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