WATSON v. GREENE

Docket No. 10-307-pr.

640 F.3d 501 (2011)

Darrell WATSON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Gary GREENE, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Superintendent, Eric T. Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 17, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Carney , The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Victor Barall , Assistant District Attorney ( Leonard Joblove , Assistant District Attorney of Counsel, on the brief), for Charles J. Hynes , District Attorney, Kings County, Brooklyn, NY, for Respondents-Appellants.

Before: LYNCH and CHIN, Circuit Judges, KORMAN, District Judge.


GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:

Respondents-appellants Gary Greene, the Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility, and Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, appeal from the December 30, 2009, order and judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Carol B. Amon, J.) granting habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to petitioner-appellee Darrell Watson. Watson had been convicted of first...

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