GARVEY v. DUNCAN

Docket No. 05-5764-PR.

485 F.3d 709 (2007)

Thomas GARVEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George DUNCAN, Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 9, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Berry, New York, New York (Ashley F. Waters, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., New York, New York; David Crow, The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau, New York, New York, of counsel), for Petitioner-Appellant.

Hae Jin Liu, Assistant District Attorney, Bronx, New York (Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Joseph N. Ferdenzi, Nancy D. Killian, Assistant District Attorneys, Bronx County, Bronx, New York, of counsel), for Respondents-Appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE, MINER, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


Judge STRAUB dissents in a separate opinion.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge.

On this appeal, after defendant had been convicted of burglary in state court, he filed a petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking habeas corpus relief alleging a violation of his due process rights based on identity evidence admitted against him at trial. It is clear that the burglar's identity did not at the time of the burglary press...

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