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SELLAN v. KUHLMAN

No. 99-2632.

261 F.3d 303 (2001)

Angel Sellan, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert Kuhlman, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 2000.

Decided: August 14, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Polly N. Passonneau, Esq., New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Donna Aldea, Assistant District Attorney (Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Queens County, John M. Castellano, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), Kew Gardens, N.Y., for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge:

Angel Sellan appeals from a September 27, 1999 judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (David G. Trager, District Judge), denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He argues primarily that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when his appellate counsel failed to raise a potentially meritorious issue of New York State law on direct appeal...

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