MARTINI v. HENDRICKS

Civ. No. 99-4347 (WHW).

188 F.Supp.2d 505 (2002)

John MARTINI, Sr., Petitioner, v. Roy L. HENDRICKS, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, and John L. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, State of New Jersey, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

March 15, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Zegas, Chatham, NJ, Peter Garcia (Acting Public Defender), Mark H. Friedman, Theresa Yvette Kyles, Office of the Public Defender, Appellate Section, Newark, NJ, for Petitioner (Martini).

Marilyn Goceliak Zdobinski, Special Deputy Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, Office of the Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, Fred L. Schwanwede, Susan W. Sciacca, William H. Schmidt, Bergen County Prosecutor, Hackensack, NJ, for Respondents (State of New Jersey).


OPINION

WALLS, District Judge.

Petitioner, John Martini, Sr. is currently on New Jersey's death row for kidnapping and murder. He now moves for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on the following seven grounds1: (1) ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate and use at trial certain mitigating evidence; (2) ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to find and use drug paraphernalia in the...

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