United States Second Circuit

Under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, full deference is due only to factual findings and mixed findings of fact and conclusions of law that a federal court can fairly infer from the state court opinion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2001
• Published 04/03/2001

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before CALABRESI and POOLER, Circuit Judges, and CEDARBAUM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert J. Boyle, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant., Howard A. Getzler, Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Kings County, and Leonard Joblove, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief).