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NEVERSON v. BISSONNETTE

No. 00-1044.

261 F.3d 120 (2001)

Trevor Neverson, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Lynn Bissonnette, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 20, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Thompson, by appointment of the court, with whom Trevor Neverson, pro se ipso, was on brief, for appellant.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee.

Brenda M. O'Malley, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dep't of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief, for provisional respondent (Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service).

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In 1987, a Hampden County, Massachusetts grand jury indicted petitioner-appellant Trevor Neverson, a native of Trinidad, for the murder of his fifteen-month-old stepdaughter, Leshawna Wright. His first trial resulted in a court-ordered judgment of acquittal as to so much of the indictment as alleged first-degree murder. The trial judge sent the remaining charges (second-degree murder and the lesser included offense of manslaughter) to the jury...

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