United States Second Circuit

The letter application to the highest state court adequately raised a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel even if it was silent as to the constitutional basis for the claim, because the constitutional basis was raised in an attached brief to the Appellate Division.

Appellate Information

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

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.