United States First Circuit

An Application for Leave to Obtain Further Appellate Review was sufficient to apprise a reasonable jurist that petitioner was seeking to vindicate his constitutional rights of confrontation and cross-examination, thus a habeas petition is reinstated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2002
• Published 07/23/2002

Judges

• McAULIFFE, District Judge., Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and McAULIFFE, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth G. Littman for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Linda A Wagner, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Massachusetts Attorney General, was on brief for the appellee.