United States Second Circuit

Habeas petitioner's letter application to the New York Court of Appeals for leave to appeal for ineffective assistance of counsel under New York state law is sufficiently specific to alert that Court to the federal nature of petitioner's claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2001
• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge:, Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeremy Gutman, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Sergi, Assistant District Attorney (Jeanine Pirro, District Attorney, and Joseph M. Latino, Assistant District Attorney, of counsel), White Plains, NY, for Respondents-Appellees.