PEOPLE EX REL. SPAULDING v. WOODS


63 A.D.3d 1456 (2009)

880 N.Y.S.2d 588

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. LEIGHTON SPAULDING, Appellant, v. R.K. WOODS, as Superintendent of Upstate Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department.

Decided June 25, 2009.


Following his 1994 conviction of murder in the second degree, petitioner was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. His conviction was subsequently affirmed on appeal (People v Spaulding, 222 A.D.2d 312 [1995], lv denied 88 N.Y.2d 942 [1996]). Thereafter, petitioner made numerous unsuccessful applications for habeas corpus relief and CPL article 440 motions. The denial of petitioner's fourth application for habeas corpus...

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