United States Second Circuit

Appellate courts are not bound by a previous habeas decision for codefendant on same issue where pre-AEDPA standards applied in one habeas petition and post-AEDPA standards applied to the other petition.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2000
• Decided 07/12/2001
• Published 07/12/2001

Judges

• Before WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julia Pamela Heit, New York, NY, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Efrem Z. Fischer, Assistant Attorney General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Edward Johnson, Deputy Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for respondent-appellee.